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Docket #0245 - Youth mental health crisis in our City
A
A
We
will
also
take
public
testimony
and
would
appreciate
it
if
you
sign
in
to
testify
or
to
register
your
attendance.
There
is
a
sign-in
sheet
near
the
door
when
you
walked
in
if
you're,
not
a
panelist.
At
the
start
of
your
testimony,
I'd
like
to
remind
you
to
please
state
your
name
and
your
affiliation.
A
A
So
back
in
february
I
had
filed
an
order
to
address
the
youth
and
mental
health
crisis
in
our
city.
I
don't
have
to
read
the
whole
order.
I
know
many
of
you
have
already
read
it,
and
but
we
do
know
that
this
is
a
very
important
issue
it
always
has
been,
but
especially
through
covid.
We
see
the
need
that
our
youth
have
in
the
city
of
boston
right
now,
so
I'm
excited
that
we
have
so
many
panelists.
Here
we
have
three
panelists.
The
first
will
be
the
administration,
those
who
work
for
the
city
of
austin.
A
A
A
B
Good
morning,
chairperson
murphy
good
morning,
um
my
name
is
peter
impalakis
I
serve
as
the
director
of
child
and
adolescent
mental
health
for
the
boston
public
health
commission,
and
I
want
to
thank
you
for
bringing
us
together
today
to
talk
about
this
important
topic
as
the
covet
pandemic
rages
across
the
country.
We
need
to
address
the
impact
that
the
pandemic
and
the
isolation
that
is
brought
has
having
on
youth
and
the
trauma
that
young
people
are
experiencing.
B
Our
youth
were
already
facing
mental
challenge.
Mental
health
challenges
and
the
pandemic
has
exacerbated
many
of
these
at
the
boston,
public
health
commission,
promoting
mental
health
and
creating
equal
opportunities
to
ensure
that
youth
have
access
to
high
quality,
affordable
and
culturally
competent
mental
health
care
is
part
of
our
larger
mission
to
protect,
preserve
and
promote
the
health
of
all
boston
residents,
especially
those
who
are
most
vulnerable.
B
B
Our
programs
primarily
offered
through
the
bureau
of
child
adolescent
and
family
health,
provide
direct
services,
collaborate
with
boston
public
schools,
to
ensure
that
youth
have
support
in
schools
and
address
the
different
social
determinants
of
health
that
are
impacting
youth.
Mental
health,
uh
I'll
go
in
kind
of
developmental
age.
Early
childhood
mental
health
promotes
service
delivery
using
the
evidence-informed
launch
and
my
child
model
with
a
family
partner
and
clinician
team
from
2019
to
2023.
B
This
is
open
to
anyone
referred
into
the
program
who
is
from
boston,
boston,
healthy,
starts
initiative.
Our
family
partners
use
the
same
scale
and
refer
to
our
behavioral
health.
Clinician
for
individual
therapy
there's
also
a
postpartum
support
group
that
runs
for
eight
weeks
to
support
mothers
up
to
eight
weeks.
Postpartum.
B
This
program
try
targeted,
self-identified
black
women
with
a
baby
up
to
the
age
of
18
months,
school-based
health
centers,
which
is
my
personal
program.
uh
We
have
continued
to
work
with
boston
public
schools
to
automatically
have
students
enrolled
where
that's
a
process.
Right
now,
it
works
on
parental
consent
to
sign
in
to
become
a
member
of
the
health
center.
B
B
uh
Health
resource
centers,
which
are
also
school-based
program,
654
students
receive
in-class
health
education,
2061
students
were
reached
via
outreach
events
and
604
students
did
in
office.
Visits
hrc
teaches
the
breaking
free
from
depression,
curriculum
developed
at
children's
hospital
and
has
reached
379
students
to
in
eight
public
high
schools.
B
B
Our
neighborhood
trauma
team
uses
shared
approaches
to
respond
to
incidents
of
community
violence
in
a
collaborative
manner
to
facilitate
the
recovery
of
individuals,
their
families,
friends
and
communities
from
dramatic
exposure.
Currently,
there
are
six
neighborhood-based
teams:
bowdoin
geneva,
four
corners,
east
boston,
jamaica,
plain
mattapan,
roxbury,
grove
hall
services
available
in
multi
languages.
B
B
59
providers
have
been
trained,
149
youth
have
received
workshops
and
they're,
a
youth
provider
of
workshops,
training
up
here,
peer-led
group
they're,
six-
that
is
kind
of
the
frontal
face
of
what
we've
been
doing.
uh
There's
many
I'll
address
uh
later,
there's
much
more
to
come
and
there's
much
more
going
on
behind
the
scenes,
but
I
want
to
take
a
moment
to
talk
about
what
are
the
unmet
needs,
so
primarily
mental
health
providers
serving
boston
children,
youth
have
been
struggling
to
fully
staff.
B
In
recognition
of
the
urgent
demand
to
enhance
boston's
response
to
the
crisis
level.
Behavior
health
needs.
You
will
be
hearing
more
in
the
coming
weeks
about
new
investments
at
bbhc
to
scale
up
innovative
behavioral
health
prevention
and
response
models
through
a
comprehensive
and
coordinated
city-wide
response.
C
D
Who
is
the
director
of
social
work
who
is
on
leave?
I
bring
you
the
knowledge
and
experience
of
a
school-based
social
worker
within
the
boston,
public
schools
for
the
past
16
years
and
a
current
transformation,
social
worker
at
the
dearborn
stem
academy
and
also
as
the
acting
director
of
social
work.
D
Bps
takes
a
whole
school
whole
community
whole
child
approach,
guided
by
our
district
wellness
policy
to
make
sure
students
have
the
opportunities,
services
and
support
to
be
healthy
now
and
for
their
lifetime.
Every
member
of
the
bps
community
plays
a
role
in
supporting
the
health
and
wellness
of
our
students.
Partnerships
with
families,
city
and
community
agencies
are
essential.
D
In
the
past
several
years,
bps
has
invested
25.5
million
in
social
workers,
family
liaisons
nurses
and
school
psychologists,
allowing
us
to
expand
student
access
to
mental
health
services
and
increase
staff.
Racial
and
linguistic
diversity
shared
with
you
on
monday,
we've
increased
the
number
of
social
workers
this
year
by
108
and
will
be
adding
26
more
school
psychologists,
increasing
the
number
of
school
counselors
and
mentors.
All
of
who
will
coordinate
comprehensive
asset-based
student
plans,
both
students
and
staff
have
experienced
a
wide
range
of
experiences,
including
trauma,
stress
and
loss.
D
It's
essential
that
all
schools
are
prepared
to
support
communities
through
healing
centered
engagement.
Our
teams
provide
a
multitude
of
mental
health
services
to
students,
including,
but
not
limited,
to,
community
community
building
and
healing
circles.
Individual
and
group
counseling
referrals
to
community
partners,
completion
of
risk
assessments
and
to
date,
our
collective
mental
health
staff
have
completed
850,
plus
suicide
risk
assessments
and
over
200
threat
assessments
across
the
district
crisis.
D
Response
teams
supported
by
the
office
of
social
work,
safety
services
and
behavioral
health
services
have
supported
66,
high-impact
crises
along
across
43
schools,
supported
by
184
mental
health
staff.
Our
crisis
work
is
done
in
collaboration
with
various
vp
bps
offices,
city
departments
and
community
agencies
to
support
neighborhood
healing.
D
D
Bsac
bsac
has
held
town
halls
with
mental
health
as
a
major
focal
point
and,
thanks
to
their
advocacy,
is
a
large
reason.
We
have
a
clinician
on
call
during
bps
vacations
and
during
the
summer
we've
heard
the
council's
inquiries
as
to
how
we're
supporting
our
staff
through
the
pandemic,
and
we
agree
it
is
critically
important
to
invest
in
the
care
of
our
educators
and
staff.
D
We
recognize
the
importance
of
collaboration
within
our
resource
resource-rich
city.
To
that
end,
bps
participates
in
hub
tables
that
advance
cross-departmental
coordination
efforts.
Our
behavioral
health
services
office
leads
the
boston,
school-based,
behavioral
health
collaborative
and
has
over
20
partners
within
schools,
while
there's
certainly
a
great
deal
of
work
to
do
for
our
entire
city
to
overcome
the
challenges
we
are
facing,
bps
continues
working
collaboratively
to
mitigate
the
impacts
of
this
mental
health
crisis
and
we
thank
you,
the
council,
for
your
support
and
partnership.
F
Thank
you
I'll
just
introduce
myself,
I'm
jill
carter,
I'm
the
senior
executive
director
for
the
office
of
health
and
wellness
and
the
office
of
health
and
wellness
has
four
teams
that
includes
the
work
of
social,
emotional
learning,
health,
education,
physical
education
and
physical
activity
and
the
wellness
wellness
policy,
promotions
and
evaluations,
and
so
our
office
is
here
to
answer
any
questions.
If,
if
there's
anything
that
falls
into
those
categories,
awesome.
E
E
They
fall
under
the
categories
again
of
co-response
research
training
and
an
initiative
called
the
sequential
intercept
mapping
initiative,
which
is
city-wide
as
well
as
again
I'll,
continue
forth
with
the
hub
model.
The
co-response
program,
peers,
bpd
offices
with
master's
level,
mental
health
clinicians
to
help
improve
outcomes
to
mental
health-related
calls
for
service
and
also
provide
follow-up.
E
E
Currently
there
are
three
vacant
best
clinic
clinician
positions
that
we
are
actively
seeking
to
fill
one
last
one
best
clinician
was
initially
dedicated
to
co-responding
with
bpd
school,
with
the
with
the
bpd
school
police
unit.
The
bpd
school
police
unit
consists
of
offices
and
a
supervisor
who
has
been
specifically
trained
on
juvenile
mental
health.
E
E
I
should
say
during
the
same
time,
which
resulted
in
the
elimination
of
75
special
police
officers
assigned
to
the
boston
public
schools.
These
offices
responded
to
youth
who
struggled
with
behavioral
outbursts
resulting
in
de-escalation
of
incidents
and
thus
avoiding
the
need
for
boston
police
presence
in
those
schools.
E
As
you
may
know,
this
legislation
left
it
up
to
school
superintendents
as
to
whether
or
not
to
hire
school
resource
officers.
Boston
is
the
only
district
in
the
commonwealth
that
has
opted
not
to
reinstate
sros
the
same
time.
Police
presence
in
schools
has
also
become
significantly
limited
due
to
post
legislation.
E
For
these
reasons,
we've
decided
not
to
refill
the
bpd
spu
best
clinical
position,
as
the
clinician
had
been
underutilized
while
assigned
to
bpd
offices
after
the
legislation
came
out.
Instead,
our
goal
is
now
to
ensure
that
neighborhood-based
districts
are
fully
staffed
with
clinicians
during
the
day
shifts,
so
that
district
offices
are
more
likely
to
co-respond
in
calls
for
services
with
bless
with
best
clinicians
to
these
schools.
E
The
partnership
has
already
examined
the
2017-2018
school
year
and
we
are
now
currently
working
on
examining
2018
through
221
school
years.
This
research
will
enable
us
to
examine
the
impacts
of
both
covenanting
pandemic
and
the
disbandment
of
the
boston
public
school
police
units
on
schools.
Reliance
on
bpd
for
behavioral
health
related
issues,
boston
police
department
also
participates
in
regular
meetings
of
the
youth,
mental
health
and
crisis
intervention
coalition,
which
includes
representatives
from
the
boston,
public
schools,
bmc
boston,
university,
best
umass
la
in
umass
lowell,
and
facilitates
collaboration
and
information
sharing
across
these
agencies.
E
E
Several
such
mapping
workshops
have
taken
place
over
the
years,
bringing
various
stakeholders
and
partners
together
to
collaboratively,
identify
local
resources
and
gaps
and
services
and
create
an
action
plan
to
enhance
collaboration
and
reduce
the
risk
of
justice
involved
and
rece
justice
involvement
and
recidivism
for
young
people
with
addiction
and
or
mental
illness.
The
plan,
since
the
beginning
of
the
project
has
always
been
to
conduct
a
mapping
specifically
focused
on
juveniles.
E
I
don't
know
how
much
time
I
have
left,
but
I
have
one
more
model
and
I
will
go
quickly.
Thank
you.
The
boston
police
department's
hub
model
was
launched
in
2018
as
a
partnership
with
mass
housing
in
the
east
boston
community
health
center,
with
now
up
to
125
additional
community
based
organizations
involved
in
four
police
districts,
east
boston,
jp
dorchester
and
roxbury,
who
each
convene
weekly
with
up
to
30
community
based
organizations
to
identify
families
and
youth
in
crisis
and
to
provide
for
them
comprehensive
service
resources,
including
mental
health
and
emotional
health
services.
E
To
date,
the
hub
has
received
417
referrals,
of
which
65
percent
of
those
families
and
youth
have
been
connected
to
services.
12
percent
could
not
be
located,
10
percent
were
informed
of
services
and
5
percent
refused
support.
I
want
to
take
this
time
to
thank
you
for
convening
this
hearing
and
again
any
questions.
We're
we're
here
to
answer
them.
Thank
you.
A
G
B
B
G
B
A
F
Twitter,
I
I'm
from
the
boston,
public
schools,
office
of
health
and
wellness,
and
I
just
wanted
to
add
a
few
um
a
few
examples
of
initiatives.
So
we
do
have
a
youth
advisory
board.
um
One
of
them
we
have
several,
but
one
is
uh
that
you,
the
youth
advisory
board,
called
empowering
teens
through
health
and
that's
a
group
of
students
who
it's
it's
not
directed
at
peer
mentoring,
but
it's
more
directed
at
youth
recognizing
what
are
the
issues
that
are
important
to
them
and
then
creating
campaigns.
F
F
We
we
also
feel
that
um
health
education,
which
is
intended
for
all
of
our
students,
is
designed
to
build
the
skills
that
we
would
want
for
students
to
be
able
to
work
uh
to
think
about
themselves
and
their
own
health,
but
also
to
recognize
need
across
their
students
or
their
friends
and
their
families.
So
we're
really
trying
to
increase
the
amount
of
health
education
that
is
inclusive
of
emotional
health,
education
in
our
schools
and
I'll
pause
and
see,
if
others
have
a
person.
E
Secondly,
you
know
we're
from
a
generation,
as
I
am
at
least
that
we
were
out
all
day
playing
with
our
friends,
and
you
know,
since
the
introduction
of
the
phone
and
parents
giving
kids
phones-
and
I
did
it
um
in
social
media,
isolation
and
and
depression
I
think
kicks
in
and
so
between,
family
violence
and
so
in
in
isolation
caused
by,
I
think
social
media.
We
have
a
lot
of
stressors
that
young
people
have
now
that
we
may
not
have
had
as
acutely
when
we
were
um
coming
up.
E
We
have
a
grow
program
which
is
specifically
for
girls,
and
it
is
a
community
based
girl,
girls,
mentorship
program
which
creates
community
amongst
in
between
young
women,
which
is
important
these
days.
The
program
specifically
focus
on
inner-city
young
girls
ages,
nine
to
fourteen
it
promotes
self-esteem,
building
leadership,
building
problem,
solving
development,
interpersonal
development
growth
and
mentorship.
The
goal
is
to
teach
inspire
and
support
young
girls
throughout
the
city
as
they
transition
into
adulthood.
E
A
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Thank
you
and
we've
been
joined
by
councillor
mejia.
Welcome.
How
are
you
thank
you?
Thank
you
and
um
yep.
You
can
say
hello
and
the
first
panel,
just
so
you
know,
is
the
administration,
so
we
have
the
public
health,
the
public
schools
and
the
boston
police,
so
you
can
jump
right
in.
Thank
you.
Thank.
H
H
What
were
the
issues
that
they
were
dealing
with
in
terms
of
their
social,
emotional
and
mental
well-being?
Because
we
can't
talk
about
the
work
that
boston
public
schools
have
to
do
without
really
understanding
the
needs
that
young
people
are
experiencing
in
their
schools
and
out
on
these
streets.
So
thank
you
peter
for
your
leadership
and
your
partnership
in
that
space.
um
I
guess
some
of
my
questions
for
the
administration
and
you
already
know
that
this
is
a
something
that
is
dear
near
to
me.
um
So
you
know,
mental
health
is
really
intersectional
right.
H
So
we
really
can't
talk
about
mental
health
without
talking
about
housing,
insecurity,
food
insecurity,
substance
use,
disorder,
etc.
That
all
of
these
things
are
interconnected
and
oftentimes.
I
say
how
do
you
eat
an
elephant?
Is
one
piece
at
a
time:
how
do
you
deal
with
one
issue?
It's
one
issue
at
a
time,
but
when
you're,
a
young
person
and
you're
dealing
with
all
of
these
things,
all
at
once
or
you're
living
in
a
household
that
is,
it
is
a
lot
and
then
you
have
to
go
to
school
and
show
up
and
be
your
best
self.
H
H
So
I'm
just
going
to
ask
you
all
to
talk
to
me
specifically
around
that
issue
and
then
continuing
with
my
question
around
the
intersectionality
around
mental
health
and
wellness
um
and
the
ways
that
we
intersect
and
accept
young
people's
identity.
um
You
know
when
it
comes
to
students,
you
know
just
being
black
latinx,
an
immigrant
lgbtq.
H
All
those
internationalities
really
do
impact
how
you
show
up
in
this
world.
So
if
you
could
just
talk
to
me
a
little
bit
about
what
bps
or
the
administration
and
the
folks
who
are
here
are
doing
to
kind
of
like
interweave
the
intersectionality
around
the
different
identities,
and
can
you
just
talk
a
little
bit
more
about
the
neighborhood
trauma
teams?
H
I
think
you
mentioned
this
earlier.
Is
the
team
reflective
of
the
communities
that
you
serve,
especially
with
the
low
wages
that
the
city
of
boston
paige?
You
can't
even
afford
to
live
here
in
the
city,
let
alone
serve
people
here,
so
I'm
just
curious
how
you
all
are
contending
with
that
issue
here:
people
who,
who
are
living
the
realities
are
often
the
least
paid.
So
I'm
just
curious
like
how
you
all
are
dealing
with
that.
I
have
a
lot
of
questions.
H
What's
the
response
in
terms
of
community
uh
community
engagement
and
communication,
I
know
that
we
usually
focus
a
lot
of
our
energy
on
the
initial
support
for
the
the
families.
I'm
curious
about
the
vicarious
trauma,
and
what
does
that
look
like
for
the
neighbors
and
and
the
small
businesses,
and
just
the
community
as
a
whole
like
what
are
we
doing,
and
I
only
have
seven
minutes.
So
that's
enough
for
now
go.
F
Yeah,
I
can.
um
I
can
take
a
little
bit
of
the
first
question
around
um
the
homelessness
um
resources
and
I
will
say
that
I'm
sort
of
repeating
um
some
of
the
elements
that
um
brian
marks
our
senior
director
of
opportunity.
Youth
um
brought
up
at
our
hearing
on
monday.
And
I
don't
want
to
pretend
that
I
can
speak
to
this
at
the
level
that
he
would.
H
F
Want
me
to
show,
so
I
will
tell
you:
there's
an
increased
investments,
yes,
homelessness,
uh
education
resources
and
um
there
it's
it's
about.
4.5
million
is
the
increased
investments,
and
this
relates
to
housing,
vouchers,
emergency
homelessness,
prevention,
assistance
and
school-based
investments.
So
that's
a
hopefully
quick,
summary.
H
Don't
you
feel
better
that
you
did
that
I'm
here
to
take
care
of
your
mental
health
and
wellness?
You
know,
I
really
appreciate
it:
okay,
okay,
so
can
someone
talk
to
me
a
little
bit
about
um
some
of
the
trauma
and
their
response,
because
that
is
definitely
something
that
is
really
big
in
our
neighborhoods
and
some
of
you
were
talking
about
violence
right
and
that
whole
idea
of
living
in
fear.
It
is
real
like
when
I
go
to
the
bodega
with
my
daughter.
H
The
first
thing
that
I
do
before
she
goes
out
is
I
say:
let
me
look
to
see
if
there's
anything
happening
and
if
there's
nothing
happening,
then
we
can
go
the
barber
shop
in
the
hair
salon
where
we
go.
Somebody
was
murdered
in
their
chair.
So
this
is
the
reality
that
we're
living
in
and
so
kind
of
just
talk
to
me
a
little
bit
about
that
whole
fear
factor
and
how
that
plays
up
in
the
way
people
are
showing
up.
B
So
you
asked
specifically
about
the
neighborhood
trauma
team.
Yes,
um
so
that's
under
the
commission
and
uh
the
so
it
is
a
network
that
marries
both
what's
happening.
So
if
a
victim
is
brought
to
the
hospital,
it's
it
may
be
initiated
there
or
may
be
initiated
from
the
community.
uh
It's
it's
a
multi-level.
B
Where
there's
a
community
park.
Each
area
has
a
community
partner
that
knows
the
community.
uh
It
could
be
a
nonprofit,
it
could
be
a
community
center,
it
could
be
a
community
health
center,
so
that
becomes
the
hub
of
the
response
for
that
area.
uh
Sometimes
they'll
do
door-to-door
to
to
see
who's
impacted,
to
give
them
information
about
trauma
and
where
to
seek
uh
support.
um
Sometimes
they'll
run
groups
within
the
uh
for
impacted
individuals
within
the
community.
B
They
will
address
the
family,
they
will
um
so
it's
it's
a
partnership
between
a
clinical
provider,
a
community
uh
based
organization
and
then
it's
a
network
and
if
it,
in
fact
I
will
I
will
get
if
it
involves
a
young
person,
who's
in
boston,
public
schools,
I'll
usually
get
that
and
and
bps
will
also
get
that
alignment.
So
we
can
coordinate
how
we're
responding
to
the
school
communities
within
the
walls
of
the
schools.
D
D
We
have
a
team
of
leads
that
get
information
share
and
decide
how
we'll
deploy
our
resources
or
what
the
need
is.
So
as
far
as,
if
there's
a
high
impact
trauma
that
happens
in
a
community
or
near
a
school
community,
we
will
get
the
information
we
will
connect
with
the
school
community
and
ask
them
what
they
need.
We
often
times
in
the
past
have
just
run
in
and
decided
what
they
need.
H
D
H
Great
but
I'm
curious
too,
I
mean-
and
I
know
that
we're
going
to
be
blessed
with
um
tina
cherry's
presence
in
a
little
while,
but
there
is
an
amazing
book
and
a
book
of
poems
and
there's
been
a
lot
of
initiatives
with
non-profit
organizations
and
I'm
just
curious,
like
the
role
that
nonprofit
organizations
play
in
terms
of
providing
content
and
curricula
that
could
be
useful
to
the
schools.
So
I'm
just
curious
about
what
those
partnerships
look
like
and
what
opportunities
exist.
I
know
toy
also
does
a
lot
of
work
around
suicide
prevention.
D
I
would
say
we
can
do
better
to
collaborate.
I've
heard
you
say
I
was
here
on
monday,
I've
heard
you
say
we're
a
resource-rich
city
and
we
don't
collaborate
as
well
as
we
can.
I
take
that.
I
even
put
it
in
my
opening
remarks
because
I
we
take
that
uh
seriously
and
we
are
committed
to
doing
better
and
making
sure
we
know
that
all
of
the
people
in
this
room
want
to
support
kids,
and
we
want
that
too
yeah.
H
Let
everyone
answer
the
question:
that's
why
I'm
glad
it's
just
us
here,
because
we
all
here
for
until
the
next
three
days
now,
um
but
thank
you
chair
for
for
giving
me
this
much
time.
um
I
do
want
to
lean
in
a
little
bit
more
around
the
coordination
piece,
because
absolutely
boston
is
resource,
rich
and
coordination
poor.
We
have
so
many
resources,
so
many
organizations
who
are
actually
doing
the
work,
but
what
we
have
yet
to
do
is
to
figure
out
how
do
we
collaborate
in
ways
that
are
really
going
to
address
right?
H
H
No,
no
okay,
um
because
I
do
believe
that
they
also
play
a
central
uh
central
role
um
in
this.
uh
In
this
conversation,
um
can
you
just
talk
to
me?
No
one
really
addressed
this,
and
I
still
would
like
to
know
a
little
bit
about
the
intersectionality
around
the
identity
piece
and
how
our
kids
are
showing
up
and
how
we're
supporting
the
intersectionality
around
all
of
the
race,
the
gender,
the
everything
jill.
F
On
um
that
coordination
piece,
if
I
could,
um
we
have
a
we've
had
for
more
than
10
years
now
um
a
stakeholder
group
called
the
district
wellness
council.
It's
a
superintendent
appointed
committee,
it's
led
by
myself
and
always
has
been
from
someone
from
the
boston
public
health
commission.
Currently
it's
pj
mccann
their
deputy
of
policy
and
it
is
made
up
of
families,
students,
central
office
staff
that
lead
key
departments,
including
social
work
and
behavioral
health
services
and
health
services
and
as
well
as
school
level
staff
and
does
have
community
partners
on
it
like
children's
hospital.
F
um
um
I'm
sorry
I'm
losing
train
thought,
but
I
wanted
you
as
well
as
other
like
bark
and
other
community
partners.
So
I
just
want
to
say
that,
and
we
have
subcommittees
of
eight
parts
of
the
policy
and
lots
of
people
working
across
agencies
and
community
partners
there.
So
I'll
stop
with
that,
but
I
just
wanted
to
say
that
has
been
established
and
then
the
intersectionality
part
I
didn't
get
to
come
up.
H
Immigrant
and
undocumented,
I
mean,
like
our
kids,
are
carrying
multiple
layers:
they're,
not
just
bringing
oneself,
there's
a
lot
and
they're
also
living
in
homes
right
where
they're
not
being
affirmed
or
supported,
and
our
parents.
You
know
we're
dealing
with
our
own
drama
and
our
own
trauma
right,
and
so
how
are
we
looking
at
this
issue?
It's
not
just
about
youth.
A
A
Many
of
you
have
shared
some
of
these
statistics
right
and
also
one
of
the
reasons
I
wanted
to
make
sure
we
have
so
many
panelists
here
from
different
organizations.
Not
just
from
the
administration
is
because
we
know
it's
not
just
the
schools
dealing
with
it
or
the
police
or
the
public
health
commission
that
we
know
families,
caregivers
schools,
but
also
community
centers,
faith-based
organizations,
health,
centers,
hospitals,
they're,
all
caring
for
our
young
people
and
there's
such
soaring
rates
of
depression,
anxiety,
trauma,
loneliness
and
suicide
that
will
have
lasting
impacts.
A
A
We
know
that
the
suicide
rates
are
increasing
at
alarming
rates,
so
that
is
one
of
the
reasons
also.
I
wanted
to
make
sure
we
held
this
hearing.
Now
is
we're
in
the
middle
of
budget
season
that
we
as
the
council?
We
are
all
saying
that
this
is
important
to
us,
but
we
have
to
make
sure
that
we
value
it
in
a
way
when
we
advocating
for
the
budget
in
funds
and
places.
A
My
question
um
for
this
first
panel
before
you
move
on
is
what
needs.
Do
you
see
new
that
you're
unable
to
keep
up
with,
like
I
said,
you've
already
and
have
always
been
working
in
this
field
with
kids
struggling,
but
this
pandemic
has
really
brought
up
new
things.
So
if
you
could
touch
on
anything,
you
see
new
that
you're
unable
to
support
and
what
is
the
like
most
startling
concern.
You
see
our
youth
struggling
with.
A
I
often
say
um
you
know,
I'm
not
the
expert
in
everything,
so
I'm
grateful
that
you're
here
and
that
we
have
people
and
there'll
be
more
panelists
speaking
that
are
in
the
neighborhoods
working
with
our
children
from
all
across
the
city.
You
know,
so
you
know
better
than
I
do
like
what
can
we
do
or
need
to
do
to
address
these
needs?
J
B
So
the
real
struggle
we
see
with
teens
is
that
the
when
their
your
environment
and
your
developmental
needs
are
at
odds
with
each
other.
That's
that's
uh
psychogenic,
that's
that
creates
mental
health
issues
and
for
teens,
whose
development
calls
for
them
to
be
with
their
peers
and
they've
been
shuttered
in
their
homes
for
uh
two
years.
B
uh
Certainly
that
has
had
a
great
impact.
uh
I
want
to
re-emphasize
the
need
for
programming.
That
is
not
has
no
pathology,
intent
behind
it,
programming
that
offers
arts
that
offers
theater.
That
offers
these
experiences
for
youth
to
have
a
healthy
identity
formation
that
allows
for
them
to
explore
community
and
to
have
a
different
sense
of
themselves
other
than
their
grades
at
school
uh
or
their
role
at
home.
F
We
also
would
um
want
to
recognize
that
bullying
through
electronic
sources,
as
maria
mentioned
a
little
bit
earlier,
that
we
need
to
to
really
have
a
comprehensive
strategic
approach
to
building
healthy
relationships
and
pointing
out
some
of
the
or
addressing
some
of
those
electronic
uh
bullying
parameters.
So
um
and
overall
I
just.
F
I
really
believe
that
um
we
need
to
make
sure
that
our
teachers
are
prepared
so
that
every
single
classroom
is
a
place
where
students
feel
like
where,
where
they're
feeling
supported
by
their
peers
but
they're,
supported
by
their
teachers
and
there's
really
a
we're.
Creating
an
environment
that
where
we
can
recognize
when
there's
more
need
and
and
therefore
connects
students
to
the
resources
and
supports
and
that
that
includes
connecting
with
family
and
doing
improving
our
ability
to
connect
with
family
around
them
and.
A
A
We
currently
only
invest
78
dollars
per
students,
but
have
it
over
24
000
per
student
budget,
so
we
really
need
to
and
they're
only
advocating
right
now
to
increase
it
to
98
dollars.
So
we
are
all
saying
it.
So
I'm
glad
that
we
are
here
saying
a
two
with
your
experts
and
I'm
going
to
assume
that
the
panelists
coming
up
are
also
going
to
agree
that
we
really
need
to
do
a
bigger
and
better
investment
in
our
athletics
and
arts
for
our
youth.
So
thank
you
for
that.
E
I
think
it's
important
to
understand
the
time
in
history
where
we
are
within
the
boston
police
department,
as
well
as
nationally
and
over
the
past
20.
Some
odd
years
we've
been
receiving
funds
from
the
department
of
justice
to
sort
of
be
the
end
all
and
be
all
every
time
we
go
to
a
call
for
service
the
person
who
responds
the
social
worker,
the
clinician
and
so
forth.
We've
developed
over
25
years
models
that
integrate
experts
with
where
we
end
and
where
we
begin
so
with
the
police
department.
E
We
want
to
stay
in
the
in
the
lane
in
which
we
were
trained
to
stay
in
and
we
want
to
be
able
to
have
easy
access
to
experts
in
the
mental
health
field,
and
so
many
of
the
models
that
you
see
within
the
bpd
have
that
model.
We
have
youth
service
provider,
slash
youth,
connect,
clinicians
on
hand
from
police
officers
uh
interact
with
the
family.
That
needs
uh
much
more
comprehensive
support
and
services.
We
have
the
best
clinicians
that
do
the
ride-alongs.
E
E
I'm
sorry,
so,
over
the
years
we've
integrated
within
our
model,
the
idea
that
we
and
and
begin
here
and
you
who
are
experts
in
and
well
educated
in
the
work
now
get
a
gentle
pass
off
to
be
able
to
really
support
these
families
and
these
youth.
And
so
I
think
that,
as
we
move
forward,
we
have
to
keep
that
in
mind.
We've
lost
five
dim
domestic
advocates
to
10
over
the
past
10
years,
because
it
does
budget
cuts.
E
At
time
of
call
for
service
and
why
it's
important
to
continue
to
support
this
at
time
of
service,
because
many
of
these
clinicians
that
do
work
in
partnership
with
us
are
then
taking
on
those
families
and
referring
them
to
more
comprehensive
long-term
services,
and
so
for
us.
We
want
to
be
able
to
continue
doing
that
work
and
the
way
we
do
it
best,
which
is
we
show
up,
we
make
protect,
we
make
sure
no
one's
going
to
get
hurt
in
the
process,
and
then
we
do
the
gentle
hand-off.
That
includes
our
hub
model.
E
K
I'm
jenna
savage,
I'm
w
director
in
the
office
of
research
development
at
the
bpd,
um
and
I
know
when
it
comes
to
youth
mental
health.
Obviously,
when
it
comes
to
prevention
and
intervention,
it's
going
to
be
like
kind
of
the
other
end
of
the
table
and
when,
by
the
time
it
gets
the
bpd
we're
seeing
kids-
and
I
say
we
marie
and
I
sit
in
office
at
headquarters,
so
I
you
know,
if
sergeant
detective,
tommy
sexton
were
here
from
the
school
police
unit.
K
He
could
tell
you
firsthand
what
he's
seeing
that's
new,
but
what
I
can
tell
you
that's
new
from
my
desk
from
where
I
sit
at
headquarters.
um
You
know
again:
police
are
going
to
see
students
or
youth
when
they're
at
the
worst
of
the
worst
and
oftentimes.
These
mental
health
problems
are
going
to
present,
possibly
criminally.
Possibly
these
behavioral
outbursts
walk
that
line
if
there
is
safety
involved,
but
we
don't
know
what
sort
of
trauma
or
mental
health
is
underlying
these.
K
um
So
I
just
I
know
maria
mentioned
it,
and
I
just
can't
stress
it
enough.
As
far
as
something
that
is
new,
you
know
I
want
to
give
a
shout
out
to
andrea
amador
who's.
Here
you
know:
we've
been
working
so
closely
over
the
years
with
her
and
sergeant
sexton
and
really
trying
to
collaborate
with
schools
and
the
police.
K
And
if
they
had
a
clinician
made
it
hard
for
the
clinician
to
get
into
schools,
then
that
last
sign
of
line
of
defense,
because
when
security
is
an
issue
and
when
safety
is
an
issue,
you're
gonna
call
9-1-1
as
you
should.
You
know,
if
someone's
in
danger,
you
should
call
9-1-1,
and
that
is
when
the
police
get
involved.
K
But
if
you
are
leaving
it
to
just
that
last
safety
net,
then
you're
going
to
get
district
officers
and
you
don't.
You
know
then
you're
leaving
up
a
chance
of
who's
coming
and
we
are
trying
to
train
more
and
more
of
our
officers
on
mental
health,
especially
juvenile
mental
health,
scit
training
that
we're
trying
to
implement
we're
going
to
do
everything
we
can
to
make
sure
as
many
officers
as
we
have
as
possible
do
have
special
training
in
this,
but
I
think
having
those
relationships.
K
Having
that
background
information
is
so
important,
so
you
don't
know
what's
happening
in
the
background,
and
you
know
the
school
police
unit
does
do
follow-ups,
they
do
home
visits
and
we
have
our
best
clinicians.
That
can
help
with
follow-ups
and
we
can
do
threat
assessments
in
the
homes
and
there's
a
lot.
We
can
do
to
help
ensure
that
by
the
time
they
come
to
us
and
it's
the
worst
of
the
worst.
As
far
as
like
someone's
just
reached
the
end,
you
know
of
some
terrible
outcome.
K
That's
going
to
really
now
result
in
an
outburst
or
someone
endangering
themselves
or
others,
it's
going
to
happen,
but
I
think
there's
so
much
more.
We
could
be
doing
and
to
kind
of
have
those
intermediate
steps
where
it's
not
just
then
9-1-1
and
some
random
officer
comes
in,
and
that's
that
I
think,
is
new
and
it's.
I
think
that
is
a
crisis,
um
and
I
think
it's
great
that
you're
having
this
panel,
but
as
marie
and
I
have
been
saying
to
each
other
like
a
lot
of
dialogue-
is
needed.
K
H
H
um
I
just
wanted
just
to
kind
of
really
seize
this
moment
to
just
acknowledge
right,
like
I
really
do
appreciate
the
level
of
expertise
and
and
depth
and
and
passion
that
you
all
are
bringing
to
this
conversation.
But
I
I
and
I
I
just
would
like
to
just
elevate
that
I
don't
see
a
black
man
on
this
panel.
I
don't
see
a
black
woman
on
this
panel.
I
don't
know
in
terms
of
lived
experience.
H
You
know,
in
terms
of
real
profound
lived
experience,
people
who
are
dealing
with
issues
of
recovery
like
um
mental
health
and
wellness.
I
just
feel
like
we've
gotten
to
the
point
that
the
real
experts
are
the
ones
who
are
really
living
these
realities
and
uplifting
them
is
so
crucial
to
this
work.
Right
and-
and
I
do
appreciate
that
we
have
a
panel
of
non-profit
organizations,
but
the
non-profit
organizations
have
to
do
god's
work
and
they
usually
have
the
least
resources.
H
So
when
we're
talking
about,
um
I
see
the
snaps
all
right,
y'all,
there's
not
supposed
to
be
any
of
that
in
this
chamber,
but
um
but
as
we
as
we
continue
to
talk
about
these
conversations,
we
cannot
ignore
or
or
dismiss
or
disregard
the
reality
that
those
who
are
living
it
and
doing
it
on
the
front
lines.
Every
single
day
are
the
best
experts
in
this
right
and
so
administration
and
and
those
who
are,
you
know,
trying
to
get
a
grasp
on
all
of
this.
It's
really
important
for
us
to
to
recognize
that.
H
That
is
something
that
is
really
obvious
to
me
right
now
from
the
panel
that
that
I
see
here-
and
I
just
want
to
name
that
and
then
the
other
piece
is
that
you
know,
there's
also
a
level
of
accountability
um
and
it's
not
just
the
boston,
public
schools
and
our
community
nonprofit
organizations
or
our
businesses.
You
know
we
have
like
children's
hospital.
I
believe,
um
is
doing
a
lot
of
work
right.
You
guys
are
doing
a
lot
of
work.
H
B
You
know
right
now.
The
amount
of
student
debt
that
is
incurred
to
become
a
clinician
in
this
city
is
is
very
high
and
then,
when
it
comes
to
licensure
this
cultural
bias
when
it
comes
to
those
exams
and
that
many
clinicians
of
color,
who
are
in
wonderful
clinicians
uh
struggle
to
pass
that
exam
uh
over
and
over
again,
and
uh
so
there's
a
there's,
a
credentialing
issue
that
I
don't
think
is
really
the
fault
of
the
clinicians.
It's
it's
the
fault
of
a
system
that
uh
has
never
considered
them.
B
That's
an
issue
there.
There
are
ways
that
we
as
a
society,
really
don't
allow
for
mental
health
support
and
anything
that
is
done
to
relieve
those
or
to
create
a
more
trauma-informed
and
more
mental
health.
Supportive
environment
in
every
situation
at
every
level
of
our
society
is
going
to
impact
this
issue
in
a
positive
way.
D
I
just
uh
that
was
one
of
the
first
things
I
said.
Counselor
mejia
was
that
I
came
here
as
a
white
woman,
but
only
on
behalf
of
the
two
latina
leaders
that
coordinate
our
department
of
student
and
community
impact
and
the
office
of
social
work.
I
wanted
to
let
you
know
that
our
office
of
social
work
is
68
by
pac
and
56
percent
of
the
team
are
bi
or
multilingual,
and
for
the
school
psychologists,
it's
41
percent,
bypoc
and
47
buy
or
multilingual,
and
we
are
committed
to
the
retainment
and
recruitment.
D
We
also
struggle
with
uh
maintaining
licensure,
and
I
have
strong
training
programs
with
uh
local
universities
and
partners.
I
would
also
just
say
our
main
concern
is
the
continued
trauma,
exposure
and
hoping
that
we
could
implement
continued
teacher
training
so
that
teachers
are
able
to
deal
with
what
they're,
seeing
because
we
aren't,
we
haven't
equipped
our
teachers
appropriately
to
be
able
to
support
that.
Thank.
H
You
for
that,
I'm
just
gonna
for
the
record,
I'm
gonna
add
one
more
line
item
to
when
we
think
about
um
the
the
data
um
lived
experience.
I
think
like
it's
great
black
and
brown
is
great,
and
I
do
I'm
all
here
for
that,
but
I
think
that
there
also
needs
to
be
a
profound
lift
experience
line
too.
That
speaks
I'm
just
I'm
just.
H
I
just
think
something
for
us
to
consider
as
a
city,
because
I
think
once
you
live
it,
um
you
know
how
to
talk
about
it
in
ways
that
are
very
different
and
culture
like
I'm,
I'm
not
I'm
not
going
to
debate.
I'm
happy
to
know
that
there's
um
an
increase
on.
You
know
the
number
of
black
and
brown,
and
you
know
clinicians
who
are
multilingual.
H
I
I
just
think
that
it's
important
as
I
continue
to
navigate
in
the
space
that
I
continue
to
uplift
lived
experience,
because
when
you
have
lived
it
and
you've
been
a
survivor,
you
just
have
a
whole
different
way
of
like
how
you
can
fix
the
problem
because
you've
lived
it,
and
so
you
wish
these
things
would
have
been
done
for
you.
So
I
just
want
to
name
that
as
something
that
for
us
to
consider
I'm
going
to
stop
talking,
because
I
know
y'all
like
tied
here.
So
no.
A
Okay,
thank
you.
I
I
thank
you
all.
I
appreciate
you
if
you'd
like
to
stay,
you
can
um
but
we'll
be
calling
the
second
panel
down.
So
thank
you
very
much.
We
appreciate
that.
Thank
you.
Thank
you
and
the
second
panel
um
todd
payton
from
greater
malden
behavioral
health,
katherine
bucky
clinical
psychologist
at
south
cove
community
health
center.
If
you
know
you're
in
the
second
panel,
you
can
make
your
way
down.
Please.
A
A
Thank
you
very
much.
I
will
start
um
at
this
end.
We'll
have
20
minutes
from
the
panelists
to
share
what
you
know
you're
experiencing
through
this
pandemic.
Thank
you
for
being
here.
I
really
do
appreciate
it.
I
know
my
colleagues
do
and
um
if
you
could
just
state
your
name
and
your
affiliation
when
you
start
that
would
be
helpful.
Thank
you
sure.
Good.
M
Morning,
good
morning,
um
council,
murphy
and
members
of
the
committee-
thank
you
for
providing
this
opportunity,
especially
about
this
important
and
timely
topic.
I'm
dr
shella
dennery,
I'm
a
social
worker
and
I've
spent
my
entire
career
working
in
partnership
with
the
boston
public
schools.
I'm
the
director
of
the
boston
children's
hospital
neighborhood
partnerships
program,
which
is
a
school-based
behavioral
health
program.
Next
school
year,
marks
our
20th
year
of
working
with
bps.
M
M
We
also
do
clinical
work
in
schools
and
we
are
a
pretty
unique
program
in
that
we
partner
at
the
individual
school
level.
We
also
partner
with
the
district,
and
we
also
partner
on
initiatives
so
we're
working
on
the
student
success
team
initiative
right
now,
we're
also
partnering
with
the
behavioral
health
department
and
the
social
work
department
to
work
on
professional
development.
M
Children's
has
also
been
a
funder
and
support
of
a
number
of
initiatives
with
mbps,
including
the
comprehensive
behavioral
health
model
that
is
led
up
by
andrea
amador
um
and
this
author.
This
funding
comes
from
the
office
of
community
health
and
john
riordan,
who
is
here
from
children's
and
a
advocate
and
huge
supporter
of
this
work.
I
work
closely
with
the
children's
mental
health
campaign
in
massachusetts.
I've
helped
develop
an
advisory
panel
for
the
state
on
school
mental
health
and
we're
working
on
a
policy
and
advocacy
brief
right
now
on
best
practices
for
school
mental
health.
M
For
the
state
of
massachusetts,
it
is
a
real
honor
to
be
here.
um
I
listened
to
the
hearing
on
monday
and
I
wanted
to
echo
the
concerns
about
adults
in
schools.
I
mean
I'm
very
concerned
about
kids
and
adolescents,
but
I'm
very
concerned
about
teachers
qualitatively
we're
hearing
a
lot
of
stories
about
absences
of
our
teachers
of
our
staff
and
their
well-being,
including
burnout,
emotional
exhaustion,
and
that
is
on
the
forefront
of
my
mind.
I'm
also
really
concerned
about
parents,
I'm
a
parent
myself,
and
that
keeps
me
humble
as
well.
M
I
have
a
second
and
fourth
grader
and
I
think
many
educators
are
just
getting
by
which
is
not
okay
and
we've
heard
that
there's
a
lot
of
morale
issues
as
well.
So
we
have
been
thinking
a
lot
about
resiliency
of
educators
and
how
we
prevent
them,
leaving
the
field
to
be
honest
and
it's
high.
The
risks
are
high,
so
a
disclaimer.
Before
I
share
my
remarks,
I'm
a
huge
supporter
and
believer
in
bps,
I'm
invested
in
this
work.
I
can't
imagine
working
anywhere
else.
M
20
years
have
gone
by,
I
hope
for
20
more,
but
today
I
wanted
to
talk
about
staffing,
organizational
structure
and
models
of
care
that
we're
seeing
from
as
an
outside
partner.
It's
well
known
that
bps
has
invested
in
behavioral
health
positions
recently
and
we're
grateful
for
that.
So
we
wanted
to
say
thank
you,
but
many
of
us
in
this
room
have
been
advocating
for
that
for
a
very
long
time
and
the
newly
formed
social
work
department
with
168
positions
is
incredible.
M
Jenna
these
efforts
are
to
be
applauded,
but
I
want
to
highlight
a
few
things
about
them.
These
positions
should
have
always
been
there.
If
you
look
at
surrounding
towns
and
cities,
social
work,
positions
and
departments
like
this
are
not
new.
They
are
foundational,
they
should
be
expected,
although
this
is
a
new
and
a
large
investment
for
bps
and
the
city
of
boston,
it
is
just
the
beginning:
bps
is
catching
up
to
the
standards
and
norms
and
foundations
for
school
supports,
and
I
hesitate
to
say
it,
but
it's
a
little
bit
embarrassing.
M
This
investment
is
needed
and
it's
gonna,
it's
gonna
need
to
be
greater
and
it's
need.
It
needs
to
be
bigger.
So
this
is
the
beginning.
But
beyond
that
the
infrastructure
there's
one
director
for
social
work,
one
director
for
behavioral
health-
they
might
have
an
assistant
director,
for
you
know,
teams
of
170
people.
M
I
don't
know
if
I
need
to
say
more,
but
I
will
um
the
social
work
positions
also
do
not
come
with
supervision.
So
those
of
us
who
would
do
this
work,
you
are
exposed
to
trauma
poverty,
violence
on
a
daily
basis
and
the
wellness
of
us
um
is
is
very
important.
I
also
really
think
that
what
was
just
said
about
training
teachers
and
that's
something
that
we
also
do.
We
have
a
training
program.
M
So
we
know
hiring
social
workers
in
these
positions
in
urban
education
without
supervision
and
regular
support
is
unacceptable
for
a
clinical
team.
More
training
oversight
is
needed.
I
think
most
of
us
are
worried
that
without
this,
social
workers
are
going
to
start
doing,
roles
in
schools
that
are
just
needed.
We
start
filling
gaps,
we
start
doing
and
then
there's
really
no
coordination
around
the
infrastructure
and
we
feel
like
we're.
Setting
social
workers
up
to
fail.
M
Bps
is
trying
to
build
houses
in
this
area,
but
we
have
not
laid
a
foundation.
Nor
do
we
have
the
leadership
teams
at
the
top
to
do
this
work.
Well,
two
administrators
for
a
clinical
team.
These
sizes
are
not
acceptable,
not
acceptable.
There's
also
not
enough
school
psychologists
in
bps,
and
I'm
guessing
you've
heard
this.
M
But,
however,
somehow
talking
about
this
has
become
controversial
and
I'm
not
sure
why
we
have
85
psychologists
for
123
buildings
in
our
city
right
now
and
there's
20
something
being
added
next
school
year,
but
that's
still
not
enough,
um
but
it's
not
wise
to
stretch
these
positions
um
in
this
way
and
to
be
transparent.
I
do
not
see
mental
health
as
being
like
a
therapy
model.
Mental
health
is
for
all
of
us
all
of
our
kids.
M
It
should
be
open
door,
we
should
have
groups,
we
should
have
interventions
in
the
classroom,
but
without
the
capacity
or
the
staffing
to
do
this.
We
cannot
do
some
of
the
things
that
are
promised
or
or
do
them
well
or
what
I
heard
on
monday
was.
We
have
things
in
some
schools,
but
not
all
schools,
which
is
also
not
okay
in
this
city,
with
the
resources
that
we
have.
These
things
should
be
universal,
um
it's
not
about
disciplines
per
se,
but
I
do
think
that
an
approach
to
this
work
is
a
team
approach.
M
It's
worth
noting
that
these
positions
are
all
expected
to
work
together,
hand
in
hand
in
our
schools,
but
they
are
separated
and
siloed
from
one
another.
The
positions
overlap
with
shared
work
and
a
coherence
in
infrastructure
in
boston,
public
schools
would
be
helpful
and
it
changes
every
time
we
have
a
superintendent.
Every
time
we
have
new
leaders,
and
so
those
of
us
who
have
been
around
for
a
long
time
are
noting
how
chaotic
this
can
feel.
We
know
that
the
behavioral
health
system
outside
of
bps
is
broken.
It's
fragmented,
as
a
parent.
M
It's
really
really
hard
to
get
care
to
access
care
to
get
the
things
we
need
for
our
kids.
We
do
not
need
to
replicate
this
by
doing
the
same
within
our
school
buildings
and
district
and
lastly,
I
just
want
to
talk
about
the
approach
to
behavioral
health
in
schools,
and
I
want
to
reassure
you
that
there
are
best
practices
for
this
work
and
some
of
this
work
is
happening
in
bps.
Today,
we've
been
working
for
over
a
decade
with
andrea
amador
and
her
team
and
the
comprehensive
behavioral
health
model.
Boston.
M
Children's
has
invested
two
million
dollars
in
this
initiative
to
sort
of
think
about
a
coordinated
multi-system
of
support,
tiered
approach
to
interventions,
and
it
seems
like
every
time
we
have
new
administration
or
leadership.
Institutional
knowledge
is
lost
and
we
are
reinventing
the
will
over
and
over
and
over
again,
and
they
things
are
the
same.
It
may
be
called
mtss,
it
may
be
cbhm
they're,
the
same
conversations
and
so
knowing
that
there
actually
are
best
practices
that
this
is
not
rocket
science.
A
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
I
do
just
want
to
um
comment
that
I
was
a
teacher
in
bps
for
over
20
years,
but
your
understanding
and
that
explanation
is
very
helpful
for
this
conversation
and
the
needs
that
we
have
and
that
we
need-
and
I
do
just
also
want
to
state
that
we
do
know
that
we
have
many
children
in
our
city
who
aren't
in
the
boston
public
school
system.
So
we
will
continue
as
a
council
to
advocate
for
all
of
our
students
that
are
in
charter
schools
or
private
schools
also.
But
thank
you
for
that.
N
You
good
morning,
councilwoman
murphy,
thank
you
for
having
me
here.
um
I
am
dr
catherine
buki,
I'm
a
psychologist
at
south
coast,
community
health
center,
which
is
predominantly
an
age
community,
health
center
in
boston
quincy
and
in
malden
that
serves
primarily
asian
immigrants,
and
so
I've
been
here
for
22
years
and
I
particularly
serve
the
vietnamese
immigrants
in
these
areas.
N
I'm
also
an
assistant
professor,
at
william
james
college,
where
I
teach
family
family
systems
courses,
but
I'm
also
the
director
of
the
asian
mental
health
program,
which
is
the
first
in
the
nation
actually
for
a
graduate
program,
and
all
of
this
is
very
intertwined
and
with
my
comments
coming
up
so
as
we've
heard,
suicide
and
social
emotional
needs
of
children
have
always
been
present.
However,
through
the
pandemic,
the
last
two
years
I've
seen
an
increased
rise,
particularly
in
the
asian
communities,
because
there
has
been
an
increase
in
xenophobia,
racism
and
discrimination
within
our
families.
N
I
want
to
share
pers
personal
stories
from
my
clinic
because
it
highlights
the
fear
and
safety
of
the
asian
community
as
the
pandemic
came
through
now,
almost
three
years,
I've
seen
an
increase
in
self-help
insurance
behaviors.
In
our
in
our
young
people
in
particular,
there
was
an
11
year
old
kid
that
was
referred
to
my
to
my
service.
N
He
proceeds
to
tell
me
that
in
class
in
one
of
the
school
districts
he
the
kids
were
teasing
him
saying
you're,
stupid,
you're,
ugly,
you
eat
bats
and
all
that
and
as
he
turns
to
his
teacher,
as
we
tell
our
kids
turn
to
an
adult,
you
trust
to
get
support.
The
teacher
turned
to
him
and
said
the
kids
are
joking
get
over
it.
So
what
he
did
was
he
internalized
all
that
hatred
went
out,
bought
a
knife
and
started
cutting
his
arm.
N
N
A
vietnamese
young
woman
was
in
a
domestic
violence,
shelter
outside
of
boston,
so
she
was
isolated
during
this
whole
time.
She
did
not
come
out
and
when
one
day
in
spring,
when
the
weather
was
warmer,
she
took
her
four-year-old
child
out
to
the
park.
As
she
was
going
out.
She
noticed
that
other
families
started
picking
up
their
children,
putting
them
in
the
scroll
and
walking
away
from
her.
She
really
did
not
have
an
idea.
What
was
going
on
she
watched
as
her
four-year-old
son
was
playing
in
the
sandbox.
N
N
N
So
what
do
we
do
about
it?
We
have
for
where
I
work
at
southco.
We
do
work
closely
with
the
school
systems
because
there
are,
there
are
psychologists
and
social
workers
in
the
in
the
syst
in
the
schools,
but
they're
not
able
to
speak
to
the
parents.
So
we
act
as
that
bridge.
So
there's
a
huge
need
of
translators
and
interpreters
that
are
culturally
appropriate
to
be
able
to
manage
these
needs
in
our
right
now,
at
southco
we
have
five
clinics.
N
We
will
be
down
to
two
clinicians
in
july
myself
and
another
person
will
be
covering
five
clinics.
We
have
35
000
patients
south
cove,
so
we
are
always
looking
for
bilingual
bicultural
clinicians
and,
as
we've
heard,
it's
very
difficult
to
train
to
bring
them
in
for
funding
to
pay
for
call
or
for
the
graduate
programs,
but
in
particular
we
need
those
who
actually
speak
an
asian
dialect.
N
Asian
dialects,
just
for
chinese
does
not
mean
it's
great.
You
have
a
chinese
person
which
you
know
if
they're
cantonese
speaking
mandarin
speaking
refugee
speaking
toys
any
speaking,
and
so
we
we
have
those
very
specific
needs
in
our
in
our
health
center.
The
second
point
to
it
is
so
at
least
to
my
work
as
director
of
the
asian
mental
concentration
at
william
james.
We
are
again
we're
the
first
in
the
country
to
train.
N
We
want
to
attract
and
retain
young
people
who
want
to
work
with
the
asian
community,
who
have
the
language
capacity,
who
will
stay
in
the
community
and
work
with
them
and
that
again
we
will
need
to
have
funding
and
scholarship
for
these
students
to
come
through.
um
So
I'll
stop
my
comments,
but
there
is
a
high
need.
This
is
the
population.
That's
often
overlooked
invisible,
and
so
thank
you
for
your
time.
I
appreciate
that.
O
O
um
Thank
you,
councilman
murphy
and
the
other
council
for
having
me
here,
I'm
very
happy
to
say
that
I'm
really
really
pleased
to
be
living
in
massachusetts
and
not
other
parts
of
the
country.
Right
now,
and
even
though
we're
talking
about
serious
issues,
we
are
leaps
and
bounds
above
and
more
progress
than
other
places,
so
that
opportunity
that
we
have
here
hopefully
sets
a
standard
and
a
record
for
for
people
to
follow
for
years.
O
um
I
live
here
in
the
city.
I've
been
living
here,
for
I
don't
know
35
years
practicing,
I
am
a
licensed
mental
health
clinician
and
I
happen
to
live
by
the
trotter
school
in
roxbury
and
one
of
the
places
that
uh
one
of
the
good
things
I
could
say
in
living.
There
is
I'm
between
the
laughter
of
the
trotter
school
and
the
christmas
addicts.
O
The
daycare
nursery
center
up
the
street
as
well
and
we've
missed
that
over
the
last
couple
of
years,
and
I
think
it's
a
metaphor
for
what
is
happening
in
our
communities
for
the
kids.
In
the
wider
aspect,
we
don't
have
laughter,
we
don't
have
happiness
and
those
issues
related
to
trauma
the
issues
related
to
lack
of
housing,
food,
water,
clean
air
really
makes
a
difference
and
a
negative
difference.
Unfortunately,
on
on
our
kids
and
our
families.
O
One
is
your
um
physical
health,
so
we
got
to
get
the
people
moving,
even
if
they're
in
their
home
they've
got
to
start
moving,
so
what
that's
dancing
uh
doing
exercises,
but
you
got
to
move
the
body.
The
second
thing
that
we
say
is
you've
got
to
eat.
Well,
so
crappy
food
produces
crappy
moods,
and
so
your
food
intake
is
really
important.
O
So
what
is
it
that
you
can
eat
that
will
support
you
physically
and
mentally?
The
third
thing
that
we
look
at
is
your
mental
health.
How
are
you
coping
with
who
you
are
and
the
people
that
you
love
or
the
people
that
are
surrounding
you
and
what
or
how
are
you
communicating
that
and
then
the
fourth
thing
is
what's
going
on
around
your
spirituality,
not
in
the
sense
of
religious
aspects,
but
just
how
are
you
balancing
all
of
those
to
bring
some
level
of
calmness
and
peace
within
your
life
at
greater
malden?
O
We
started
to
partner
and
we
have
partnered
with
different
churches
around
opening
them
back
up
in
a
sense
of
providing
a
space
for
therapy
to
happen,
providing
a
space,
for
you
know:
food,
uh
good
quality
food
to
happen,
um
sports
to
happen,
supportive
of
physical
activity
and
one
of
the
things
I
I
know
that
uh
counselor.
I
know
that
you
uh
were
proponent,
that
they,
your
staff,
told
me
that
you
talked
about
yoga
and
meditation.
O
Those
are
real
important.
You
know
life
skills
um
as
walking
and
running
and
all
those
things
as
well.
So
those
are
some
of
the
aspects
that
we're
trying
to
get
these
churches
to
sort
of
do
more
of,
and
not
only
with
the
community
around
them,
but
with
their
parishioners
as
well
or
attendees,
as
well,
in
doing
that
partnership
and
sharing
those
building
space.
To
actually
do
that,
so
hopefully,
the
mental
health
of
kids
families
in
the
community
can
have
a
more
positive
uh
impact
on
on
them
and
in
our
society.
O
And
so
we
do
a
lot
of
that
work
as
well
with
our
clinicians
and
our
families,
and
I
think,
that's
very
important.
You
know
for
those
recent
immigrant
or
those
people
who
speak
a
second
language
in
language
as
a
second
language,
for
them
to
understand
what
mental
health
is
and
what's
provided
here.
So
so,
thank
you.
A
P
I
wanted
to
take
a
little
bit
of
time
to
talk
about
the
how
and
what
the
framework
that
we're
bringing
to
this
work
so
we're
um
in
our
community-based
trauma
services,
in
addition
to
our
integrated
behavioral
health
services
at
ubnhc,
we're
bringing
um
a
trauma-informed
practice
and
equity
framework,
so
um
part
of
what
this
means
is
understanding
trauma
from
an
ecological
perspective,
thinking
about
the
individual,
collective
systemic,
ongoing
and
then
intergenerational
and
historical
trauma
using
the
trauma-informed
approach
means
shifting
from
what's
wrong.
So
that
could
be
what's
wrong
with
this
individual.
P
P
And
so
all
of
our
work
is
really
grounded
in
collaborations
and
having
at
the
forefront
community
partnerships
and
bringing
the
support
work
that
that
we
have
the
offerings
to
the
community.
So
I'm
going
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
some
of
our
coalitions,
but
specifically
with
working
with
young
people.
P
So
really
trying
to
eliminate
those
barriers
and
break
down
silos
with
community
partners
to
expand
collaboration
and
promote
more
holistic
healing
services.
In
addition
to
um
to
behavioral
health
services
that
are
clinic
based,
so
a
couple
of
the
coalitions
that
I'm
a
part
of,
I
coordinate
the
neighborhood
trauma
team
in
east
boston,
and
I
know
that
that's
been
mentioned.
The
neighborhood
trauma
team
network
just
wanted
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
the
two
approaches
to
the
east:
boston,
trauma,
teamwork,
um
there's
the
response
and
recovery
work
and
then
ongoing
healing
support
services.
P
So
we
respond
to
trauma
on
the
community
level.
Many
of
the
types
of
traumatic
incidents,
in
addition
to
community
violence
that
we
work
with
have
already
been
mentioned
today.
Thinking
about
school
conflicts
and
bullying,
domestic
violence,
hate
crime,
sexual
assault
and
harassment,
and
then
also
working
with
community
members.
Around
immigration,
related
trauma
and
substance,
use,
related
trauma,
trauma
connected
to
substance,
use,
loss
as
well,
and
so
really
breaking
this
down
into
um
into
the
the
response
and
recovery
work.
So
how
do
we
respond
as
a
community
with
our
partners
after
traumatic
incidents
happen?
P
And
then
what
are
our
ongoing
healing
programs
that
are
provided
consistently
that
people
can
tap
into
when
they're
ready
after
experiencing
traumatic
events?
And
what
we
see?
In
addition
to
working
with
folks
across
intergenerational
trauma
is
that
a
lot
of
people
in
our
community
are
still
processing
or
experiencing
re-traumatization
based
on
trauma
they
experienced
in
their
home
country
around
the
journey
through
migration
here
and
so
incorporating
that
lens
and
that
immigrant
justice
lens
and
partnering
with
our
immigrant
justice
collaborators
through
different
partnerships.
P
And
then
um
one
relatively
new
during
covid
program,
that's
a
part
of
the
neighborhood
trauma
team
is
the
trauma
team
in
east
boston,
community
support
collective,
which
is
a
team
of
five
community
healers
all
immigrants
across
different
documentation,
statuses
and
it's.
The
idea
is
offering
both
one-on-one
emotional
accompaniment
and
providing
workshops
and
trainings
in
the
community
that
includes
emotional
support
groups,
grief
and
healing
groups,
picnic
cellulares,
which
are
like
a
way
to
be
out
in
the
community,
eating
healthy,
picnics
and
and
healthy
food
together.
P
I
also
wanted
to
touch
on
another
coalition,
which
is
the
easty
coalition,
which
is
the
substance.
Houston
prevention
coalition,
which
has
a
peer-to-peer
program,
has
workshops
in
schools.
So
we're
really
working
on
that
intersection
between
thinking
about
um
substance,
use,
support,
work,
substance,
use,
prevention,
work
and
then
trauma
support
and
recovery
work
so
really
collaborating
across
there.
We
work,
together
with
this
coalition,
along
with
a
few
community
partners
that
really
center
youth
work
like
maverick
landing
community
services,
the
transformational
prison
project
to
provide
bi-weekly
peace
circles
in
the
community.
P
We
are
part
we
are
a
partner
at
ebnhc
in
a
community-based
healing
center
initiative,
which
is
a
collaboration
of
different
community
partners.
That's
working
on
expanding
and
integrating
different
healing
modalities
in
the
community,
so
we
see
that
more
conventional,
more
traditional
behavioral
health
supports
are
not
enough,
um
as
you
know,
there's
a
clinician
shortage,
but
even
if
there
were
so
many
clinicians,
it's
there's
also
a
need,
as
folks
have
mentioned
before
me
for
mind.
P
Body
supports
for
different
different
forms
of
healing
modalities
connection
to
nature
connection
to
healthy
food,
as
folks
have
mentioned
so
we're
a
partner
in
this
community-based
framework.
That's
grounded
in
cultural,
humility,
healing
justice
and
restorative
justice
values
that's
working
to
provide
at
this
time
satellite
healing
services
at
different
community
events,
with
the
idea
of
having
barrier-free
access
to
trauma-informed
modalities
and
also
have
the
connection
to
nature
so
having
different
events
in
parks.
P
Eventually,
our
goal
is
to
to
go
on
hikes
with
the
community
and
really
having
that
connection
to
nature,
in
addition
to
having
community
healers
that
are
that
provide
and
are
compensated
for,
providing
different
modalities
like
reiki
different
movements,
trauma-informed
yoga,
meditation
and
dance
among
other
things.
So
um
so
we're
really
really
hoping
for
the
expansion
of
all.
All
of
the
points
that
I
talked
about.
P
A
You
thank
you.
I
appreciate
that,
and
I
do
just
want
to
state
that
I
I
like
that.
You
talked
about
recovery
and
substance.
You
support,
because
this
is
part
of
the
crisis.
We're
going
through
um
just
um
to
be
clear.
We
are
going
to
um
give
the
councils
five
minutes
each.
We
will
start
with
councillor.
Mejia
is
the
order,
then
president
flynn
and
then
councillor
fernandez
anderson,
so
I'm
going
to
put
the
timer
on
and
you
can
start
counseling
here.
That's.
H
Thank
you,
so
thank
you
to
the
panelists
really
do
appreciate
all
that
you
bring
um
to
the
space.
I
um
you
know
I
just
because
of
the
line
of
work
that
you
do.
You
probably
have
a
different
sensibility
in
terms
of
what
shows
up
for
parents
and
I'm
so
glad
that
you're
uplifting
the
importance
of
like
adults,
because
while
this
is
about
youth,
our,
if
our
young
people
are
not
doing
well,
then
they
go
home
to
spaces
and
places
where
they're
not
well,
either.
Q
H
H
I
then
manifest
this
with
my
own
daughter
around
just
putting
your
feelings
to
the
side.
You'll
be
okay,
get
over
it.
We
are
passing
down
our
own
trauma
to
our
children
every
day,
because
we
don't
know
how
to
show
up.
So
with
that,
can
you
just
talk
to
us
a
little
bit
about
the
work
that
needs
to
happen
and
so
that
we
can
create
the
type
of
culture
and
environment
where
we're
not
passing
down
trauma
to
our
children?.
M
There,
but
I
do
want
to
say
I
think
a
lot
of
this
has
to
do
with
stigma
and
us
being
able
to
have
conversations
like
this,
where
someone
like
you
can
actually
share
your
journey.
I
feel
like
that
is
incredibly
powerful,
there's
not
often
spaces
where
leaders
in
our
city
stand
up
and
say
I
have
experienced
mental
health.
It's
in
my
family
when
all
of
us
are
touched
by
this
there's,
not
a
family
in
here
who
isn't
touched
by
mental
health.
So
I
feel
like
a
lot
of
this-
is
first
opening
up
these
conversations.
M
I
think
I'm
really
encouraged
just
by
schools
generally,
because
you
know
we're
at
binka
the
international
newcomers
academy
and
we
work
with
you
know
their
their
seniors
and
we've
been
doing
some
really
innovative
programming
around
having
mental
health
and
immigrant
mental
health
being
talked
about
and
taught
in
the
classroom,
and
then
they
do
a
capstone
project
on
it.
They
present
their
work
on
mental
health
to
their
peers,
like
once,
we
start
to
normal,
like
this
is
all
over
the
media.
M
Mental
health
is
everywhere,
it's
being
talked
about,
but
the
more
we
can
get
kids
to
start
to
talk
about
it
and
actually
have
factual
information
about
it.
I
think
it's
really
powerful
and
I
loved
what
um
the
other
council
members
said
about
peer
to
peer,
like
the
more
that
kids
can
talk
to
each
other.
M
I
mean
there
is
a
whole
role
for
adults
for
sure,
but
I
think
when
I
think
about
healing-
and
I
think
it
is
really
having
spaces
that
do
feel
comfortable
and
brave
enough
where
people
can
share
their
own
struggles
or
that
they
know
actually
what
to
do
when
they
have
them,
because
at
some
point
all
of
our
youth
will
be
touched
by
this
in
some
way.
Yeah.
H
One
more
minute
you
have
one
and
a
half
minutes,
okay,
um
so
I'll
just
upload
two
things,
one
is
um
todd.
I
really
do
appreciate
you
starting
off
with
joy
right
because
um
as
people
of
color
there's
so
much
resistance
and
and
and
resiliency
in
in
just
showing
up
every
day,
um
and
we
also
have
to
recognize
the
power
and
the
strength
in
our
struggle
that,
despite
what
we
are
going
through,
we're
strong
right
and
if
we
could
uplift
and
center
joy,
I'm
in
laughter
and
healing
um
and
shifting
the
culture.
H
I
think
that
that
would
be
important
and
I'm
just
so
sad
that
I
only
have
a
less
than
a
minute,
because
I
think
that
this
is
one
of
the
biggest
conversations
and
I
think
a
lot
of
the
stuff
needs
to
just
change
systemically
culturally
and
we
need
to
create
environments
in
our
workforce
in
our
schools
that
really
elevate
and
lean
into
mental
health
and
wellness.
And
it's
not
going
to
just
be
this
conversation,
there's
just
so
much
work
that
we
all
have
to
do.
So.
N
N
um
I
agree
that
telling
our
personals
I
mean
there's
boundaries,
but
I
come
from
a
refugee
family
and
I
didn't
learn
about
my
parents
experience
until
I
was
in
grad
school
and
they
told
me-
and
I
just
cried
eyeball
because
prior
to
that,
I
asked,
and
they
just
would
not
tell
me,
as
we
know
many
of
our
immigrant
and
refugee
kids,
they
have
no
idea
what
their
history,
what
their
parents
went
through.
Many
of
those
that
we
treat
right
now
are
undocumented.
N
So
to
your
point,
they
don't
want
to
bring
their
child.
They
don't
want
to
go
to
themselves
to
the
hospital.
So
what
we
do
at
south
cove
is
that
we're
on
call
24
7
live,
we
don't
do
an
on-call
system,
we
take
it.
I
take
it,
so
I
get
those
phone
calls
and
they
will
not
take
them.
So
what
do
we
do
is
help
prevent
prevent
before
suicide
happens
or
the
attempts?
I
do.
N
We
do
a
lot
of
working
with
families
and
in
particular
we
talk
about
the
issues
of
racism
and
xenophobia
that
occurred
at
william
james.
We
created
a
parent
guide
how
to
talk
to
children,
how
to
help
parents
talk
to
their
children
about
the
discrimination
history,
discriminatory
history
against
asians
in
the
us
they
don't
know
they
don't
know
how
to
talk
to
their
children
because
they
don't
have
that
live
experience
here.
N
So
we
translate
into
four
different
languages,
so
it's
in
chinese,
uh
japanese,
korean
and
vietnamese,
and
as
of
right
now
there
have
been
9
000
downloads,
on
parents
using
it
and
talking
to
their
children,
and
so
these
are
things
that
we're
trying
to
be
creative.
We
have
to
hit
right
at
the
parents
and
really
talk
to
them
and
how
do
you?
How
are
you
being
helpful
or
healthy
to
help
your
children?
So
again,
I
appreciate
your
story
and
I
do
believe
that
we
need
to
talk.
N
R
R
I
have
seen
the
stigma
in
the
military
about
going
in
accessing
mental
health
counseling
for
families
and
for
in
for
people
that
are
serving,
but
over
time,
the
more
you
talk
about
it,
the
more
acceptable
it
is
so
what
you're
doing
here
today
is
critical
and
and
I'll
go
back
to
the
to
the
military
for
one
more.
Second,
we
have
over
22
veterans
a
day
that
commits
suicide
and
most
of
those
veterans
that
commit
suicide
every
day.
R
You
know
I
was
struck
by
the
the
the
comment
you
made.
It's
an
important
comment,
but
what's
even
more
important
is
that
we
provide
services
to
undocumented
residents
as
well
in
making
sure
that
they
have
equal
access
and
full
access
to
medical
care,
including
mental
health
counseling,
regardless
of
what
your
status
is
that
that's,
regardless
of
what
immigrant
community
you
are,
but
it's
important
to
ensure
that
all
immigrants,
regardless
of
their
status,
have
access
to
medical
care
in
mental
health
counseling
in
in
services.
R
So
maybe
I'll
ask
one
quick
question:
how
can
we?
How
can
we
work
together
as
a
city
council
as
a
city
as
a
state
in
making
sure
that
immigrant
communities
are
comfortable
accessing
mental
health
services,
even
though
it
may
have
been
a
stigma
for
their
parents
to
have
received
counseling?
Maybe
it's
kind
of
a
two-part
question.
O
I
think
that's
an
excellent
question:
how
can
you
help?
I
think
two
things
can
happen.
One
is
to
put
it
out
in
the
in
those
networks
that
you
want
to
have
listening
sessions
from
those
folks
from
the
parents,
from
the
children,
with
the
different
uh
language
and
cultural
uh
concerns
that
that
you're
putting
out
together.
So
that's
the
first
thing
I
would
do.
The
second
thing
I
would
do
is
make
some
action
plans
based
on
those
issues
related
to
policy
and
resources.
N
100,
I
also,
I
think,
with
the
case
of
language
access,
many
of
the
immigrant
groups
don't
know
where
to
go
and
when
they
do
it's
all
in
english,
and
so
even
if
they
are
encouraged
to
sign
up
to
speak
to
an
organization
insurance,
the
no
one's
there
to
explain
to
them
what
this
means.
I
think
the
other
important
aspect
is
that
the
immigrants
need
to
know
that
the
community
health
centers
cbo
is
all
that
we're
not
connected
to
ice.
N
N
M
There's
a
lot
of
medical
mistrust
in
many
communities
still,
and
I
think
when
you're
undocumented,
and
you
are
scared,
like
I
really
I
mean
I
am
excited-
to
see
all
these
non-profits
in
this
room
because
it
isn't
just
about
mental
health
and
mental
health.
I
mean,
let's
be
honest:
it's
sort
of
a
traditional
white
western
way
of
thinking
like
individual
therapy
hour
is
a
luxury,
so
I
feel
like
the
more.
M
We
can
create
innovative
systems
of
care
that
are
about
care
coordination
and
supporting
families
and
kids
and
the
community
that
are
outside
of
the
box
that
are
not
diagnosable
that
are
not
billable.
I
think
that's
the
approach
that
really
opens
doors
for
people
to
access
care.
It
hasn't
been
said
today,
but
most
mental
health
providers
are,
I
think
it's
80
to
85
percent
of
us
are
white
women.
A
M
I
mean
that's
a
huge
problem
too,
and
I
think
someone
had
already
said
like
how
do
we
reimburse
for
loans?
How
do
we
make
social
work,
schools
and
psychology
schools
more
affordable?
How
do
we
pay
for
internships?
It's
a
huge
crisis.
um
The
field
needs
to
look
like
the
community
and
it's
there
has
been
movement
and
we're
excited
about
that.
But
there's
so
much
work
to
be
done,
but
also
just
in
the
models
of
care
that
we
have
are
broken.
They
don't
work,
they
don't
work
for
my
kids.
M
P
Thank
you
just
really
quickly.
I
wanted
to
share
um
one
pilot
program
that
ebnhc
has
done
in
collaboration
with
la
collaborativa
in
chelsea.
They
reached
out
to
us
about
hearing
collaborative
members
and
their
unmet
mental
health
needs,
but
at
the
same
time,
folks
and
not
being
accessible
necessarily
like
people
have
mentioned,
have
more
conventional
office
based
behavioral
health
services.
So
we
went
to
them
to
lead
a
trauma-informed
yoga
and
cbt
cognitive
behavioral
therapy
program
and
um
talking
to
people
who
participated,
some
people
came
because
they're
curious
to
try
yoga.
P
S
A
S
S
um
So
I
don't
think
it's
fair
for
me
to
say
that
I
actually
have
a
full
assessment
of
what
my
questions
are,
but
um
my
position
in
terms
of
mental
health
services
in
the
city
of
boston
or
my
experiences,
my
experience
as
a
woman
who
was
formerly
undocumented
for
17
years
in
this
country
and
also
working
in
the
mental
health
field.
I
think
that
you
know
to
your
point,
um
sis.
I'm
sorry!
What's
your
name
michelle
to
shella's
point,
I
think
um
a
lot
of
these.
S
I
don't
think
that
45
minutes
is
enough
to
go
in
and
you
don't
know
the
kid
and
maybe
they
just
became
homeless,
and
now
you
die
we're
diagnosing
them.
So
I
think
that
paying
attention
to
that
and
obviously
you
know
the
demographics
that
we
serve
and
who
is
represented,
as
you
said,
84
white
females
and
then,
as
we
know,
it
situation
or
relationships
that
we
build
with
our
therapists
are
extremely
important
and
just
for
the
record,
I
I
believe
that
mental
health
is
for
everyone.
S
It's
a
spectrum
and
everyone
at
some
point
in
their
lives
is
dealing
with
it,
whether
temporary
or
not.
um
So
I
think
that
that's
crucial
and
that's
why
I
I
really
appreciate
dede's
cry
in
terms
of
bringing
in
and
other
nonprofits
that
I
know
in
the
community
pyramid
or
others
that
I've
that
I've
gotten
to
know
osiris
or
the
commonwealth.
Then
you
have
rock
children's
services
of
roxbury,
that
I
do
uh
have
providers
that
are
black
providing
these
services,
but
there's
just
not
enough,
and
I
agree
with
you
shella.
M
For
our
program
at
boston,
children's
we
work
with
boston,
public
schools,
we
fundraise,
so
that
we
don't
have
to
diagnose
kids
and
use
a
fee-for-service
model.
So
we
can
open
our
doors.
We
can
do
individual
therapy,
we
could
do
group
therapy,
we
could
go
to
their
home,
we
don't
have
to
be
bound
by
insurance.
We
don't
have
to
be
bound
by
a
label
because
we
know
many
kids
are
coming
in
with
situational
experiences
from
the
environment
from
the
community
and
that's
not
label-worthy
right.
So
I
I
agree
fully.
M
N
We
could
do
that
for
mass
health
to
pay
for
the
first
three
months
without
a
diagnosis,
so
we
try,
we
try
very
hard
not
to
get,
but
we
have
to
to
be
paid.
So
the
one
that
we
have
is
adjustment
disorder,
which
we
feel
is
the
most
benign
everyone
is
adjusting
to
something
at
any
time.
However,
it
only
can
last
for
so
long
because
mass
health
or
other
insurance
will
come
back
and
say
you
have
to
change
it,
and
that
is
where
this
most
difficult
is.
S
Certainly
I'm
interested-
and
I
do
think
again,
like
you
know,
speed
for
service
is
a
it's
been
a
group.
You
know
a
growing
sort
of
you
know
field,
and
then
you
have
like
a
lot
of
people
like
propagating
mental
health.
Everyone
says
you
know,
we
need
mental
health
services.
Everyone
says
that
in
campaigns-
or
you
know
whatever
um
in
in
advocating
for
a
thing,
but
I
think
that
we
need
more
in
in
in
the
process
of
destigmatizing.
S
We
need
to
look
at
everyone
in
that
sense.
So,
like
the
police
need
mental
health
services,
our
teachers
need
mental
health
services
right.
um
Our
politicians
need
mental
health
services.
So
I
think
that
in
in
in
the
spirit
of
just
stigmatizing,
but
also
extending
it
through
institutions,
so
that
providers
are
also
taking
care
of
themselves
and
leading
by
example.
S
A
You
thank
you
um
so
my
my
question
is
so
many
families,
so
many
parents
have
reached
out
to
our
office
or
just
me
personally,
and
you
know
they
don't
know
how
to
help
their
children.
They
feel
like
through
this
pandemic
they're
it's
a
different
child
to
them
and
they
just
feel
so
helpless,
and
I
know
some
of
you
already
have
touched
on
it
a
little.
A
But
how
do
you
help
them
right
because
they're,
the
way
they
parented
their
child
two
three
years
ago
is
different
from
what
they're
trying
to
do
now
and
what
can
we
do
as
a
council?
What
do
you
think
we
could
do
to
support
you
in
that
work
that
you're
already
doing
so?
I'd
love
to
hear
from
all
of
you
on
that
question.
E
N
Ahead
sure,
um
that's
a
very
good
question.
I
think
we
struggle
with
that.
um
I
think
the
needs
are
so
great,
so
we
it
says
again
we
need
more
clinicians.
We
need
more
funding
because
we
need
to
do
a
parent
group
in
addition
to
working
with
the
children
at
south
cove,
we
have
a
year
long
wait
to
see
our
ch
to
our
youth.
N
We
can't
wait
that
long,
but
we
just
don't
have
the
capacity
the
time
and
we
have
we're
covering
multiple
locations
and
we're
just
one
organization.
That's
dealing
with
the
shortage
of
providers.
What
I
would
like
to
see
is
psycho
education.
If
we
can
bring
parents
together
so
that
they
can
learn
from
each
other,
so
they're
not
alone.
So
we
try
to
run
parent
trainings
and
I
think
we
do
need
more
of
that.
N
M
Oh,
my,
I
think
one
of
the
most
important
things
we
can
do
for
our
parents
in
boston
right
now
and
around
massachusetts
is
to
normalize
how
hard
this
is
and
how
hard
it
is
to
access
care
you
started
this
hearing
with.
This
is
about
access
and
capacity
when
we
know
there's
massive
shortages,
and
we
haven't
touched
on
the
ed
boarding
crisis
in
our
emergency
rooms
around
the
city,
it
is
really
hard
to
get
high
quality
mental
health
care.
M
I
know
that
you're
asking
me
for
a
solution
not
to
call
out
the
problems,
but
I
think
if
parents
don't
know
that
the
system
is
broken
and
fragmented
and
they're
trying
to
navigate
it,
they
get
very
worn
down,
they
get
exhausted
and
they
feel
like
it's
their
their
problem
alone.
When
many
families
cannot
get
connected
to
a
provider
cannot
get
connected
to
care,
but
I
think
you
know
my
feeling
about
this
is
first
to
normalize
that
it's
hard
to
access
providers
and
care
right
now
and
there's
a
number
of
different
ways.
M
You
can
do
referrals
in
our
in
our
city
and
state
like
through
your
health
provider
um
as
well,
but
I
also
think
like
the
power
of
church
and
community
and
a
lot
of
these
other
nonprofits
that
are
supporting
families
each
and
every
day
like.
Where
is
our
support
networks?
It's
not
always
about
a
therapist.
I
don't
think
that's
always
the
solution,
but
really
being
more
holistic
about.
M
You
know,
there's
been
a
whole
lot
of
talk
about
what
we're
doing
for
our
bodies
and
our
minds
it's
hard
to
do
that
when
you're
in
crisis,
but
to
sort
of
think
about
who
are
your
natural
supports?
I
always
encourage
parents
to
talk
to
other
parents
in
their
community
because
once
you
say
my
kid
is
struggling.
Usually
then
it's
like
an
echo
of
me
too
right
and
parents
often
feel
like
they're
in
isolation,
and
I
think
this
goes
back
to
the
stigma.
Conversation
earlier
there
is
no
magic
answer
here.
We
don't
have
enough
care.
M
I
do
think
I
would,
I
hope,
to
see
more
robust
services.
I
am
a
professor
of
social
work
at
two
graduate
schools.
I'm
seeing
my
classrooms
are
full,
I'm
excited
about
what's
coming,
but
we
don't
have
enough-
and
I
think,
as
a
state
when
we're
a
leader
in
education
or
a
leader
in
all
of
these
things-
and
I
think
maybe
that's
why
I'm
so
passionate
about
what
we
can
actually
do
in
the
school
building
during
the
day,
because
that's
where
kids
are
and
sort
of,
how
do
we
start
to
do
more
parent
communication?
O
Thank
you.
um
What
can
we
do?
You
know
um
what
I
know
that
we
try
and
we
strive
to
do
at
uh
at
my
program-
is
we
need
to
get
parents
and
children
together,
and
so
we
do
have
quote
unquote
the
sunday
afternoon
meal
and
that
meal?
In
the
sense,
the
metaphor
for
having
parents
and
children
sit
down
together
as
part
of
their
therapy
and
it's
not
called
therapy.
O
It's
called
let's
getting
together
and
communicating
with
what's
going
on
individually
and
as
a
family,
so
those
parents
get
two
things
one
is
they
get
to
spend
time
with
their
children?
That's
not
based
on
discipline
or
based
on
trying
to
reform
their
child
in
some
way
and
the
kids
get
a
chance
to
sit
down
with
their
parents
and
sort
of
speak
a
little
bit
about
what's
going
on
for
them
and
what
they
would
like
to
see
different.
O
O
Well,
we
know
that
that
is
something
that
happens
within
multicultural
families
or
multilingual
disadvantage
or
cultures,
immigrant
families.
So
we
definitely
put
that
as
part
of
our
cortical
treatment
plan
is
to
have
those
stories
being
told
and
one
of
the
ways
that
we
do,
that
is
through
genograms,
so
that
you
know
how
you're
connected
through
generations
and
how
those
impact
you
today.
So
there
are
specific
things
that
you
can
do,
and
I
think
that
that's
very
important
that
it's
it's
done
and,
of
course
there's
always
you
know.
O
P
Thank
you.
Thank
you
just
to
add
on
um
to
what
other
folks
have
said.
Another
thing
that
I
think
has
worked
really
well
for
us
on
a
really
small
scale
that
I'd
love
to
see
expanded
is
um
thinking
about
compensating
young
people
and
also
parents
who
love
all
ages
for
their
their
time,
engaging
in
these
programs.
P
A
A
um
So
if
kevin
barton
from
youth
connect
toy
burton
from
dd's
cry,
you
can
make
your
way
up
and
we
can
sit
in
any
chair
up
here.
Michael
dowling
from
spoke,
nicolette
longo
from
namaste
sober,
and
I
know
we
will
have
andrea
and
pete
virtually
from
the
boys
and
girls
club
of
roxbury
join
us
and
also
tina
cherry
from
the
peace
institute
and
also
the
phoenix,
and
we
can
sit
at
the
end
chairs
too.
A
A
Like
we
had
said
with
the
um
first
two
panels,
when
we,
when
I
call
on
you,
if
you
could
state
your
name
and
your
organization
and
then
we
will
give
everyone
five
minutes
to
share,
I
think
that's
fair,
because
we
have
more
than
if
I
just
said,
20
people
would
might
get
30
seconds
and
not
the
full
time
so,
and
what
you
have
to
share
with
us
is
very
important.
So
thank
you
very
much
if
um
we
will
start
as
if
I'm
kevin
martin
from
youth
connect
awesome.
Thank
you
not.
T
T
So
again,
my
name
is
kevin
barton.
I'm
the
executive
director
of
youth
connect
a
violence,
prevention,
intervention
and
advocacy
program
of
the
boys
and
girls
clubs
of
boston
in
partnership
with
the
boston
police.
I
want
to
thank
you
for
for
actually
bringing
this
to
the
forefront.
You
know
the
youth
mental
health
crisis
really
thinking
about
how
we
as
a
city
and
a
community,
can
really
continue
to
do
this.
This
work,
it
really
is
crucial
that
more
resources
are
made
available
to
address
mental
health
needs
of
our
young
people,
and
I'm
glad
we're
talking
about
it.
T
T
T
So
while
the
pandemic
has
been
challenging,
I
think
it's
fair
to
say
for
everyone.
um
It
has
been,
and
continues
to
be
hardest
on
our
most
vulnerable
populations
in
boston,
the
youth
and
families
that
our
team
work
with
are
some
of
the
most
vulnerable
in
our
city,
often
marginalized
or
underserved
or
disengaged.
T
These
are
young
people
who
are
often
involved
with
the
juvenile
justice
system.
uh
Families
with
generational
trauma
and
families
living
in
in
poverty
um
and
they've
been
disproportionately
impacted
by
the
pandemic.
As
we
know,
aside
from
the
trauma
of
losing
loved
ones,
our
families
have
experienced
financial
burdens
due
to
loss
of
jobs
either
because
they
were
fired.
T
The
the
safety
nets
for
our
children
and
our
youth
were
really
disrupted.
um
What
was
familiar
to
them
was
really
no
longer
reliable
and
truthfully
many
of
our
young
people
were
asked
to
remain
home
in
what
were
sometimes
unsafe
situations
for
our
young
people,
so
situations
where
domestic
violence
and
child
abuse
was
and
is
prevalent,
but
we
ask
that
of
our
young
people.
T
T
T
T
They
end
up
in
these
holding
patterns
patterns
where
the
care
is
still
within
the
community
and
for
some
of
our
young
people.
It
may
be
that
they're
being
held
in
detention,
because
that
is
going
to
be
the
safest
place
for
them,
but
we
know
that
there
is
a
lot
that
happens
there
right.
So
what
are
we
saying
and
many
of
the
weights
are
due
to
you
know
shortages?
I
think
in
staffing
uh
most
of
us
around
the
table
haven't
been
immune
to
that
right,
losing
staff.
T
T
So
from
a
positive
youth
development
perspective,
I
think
we
know
that
there
are
several
truths
that
really
have
to
be
embedded
with
any
efforts
that
we
we
do
to
address
the
crisis
um
and
it
really
is
a
framework.
That's
at
the
heart
of
of
what
we
do
at
youth
connect
and
I
think
so
many
of
us
around
the
table
here.
T
I
think,
first
and
foremost,
you
know
we
we
do
ground
ourselves
in.
We
are
not
the
experts
in
the
lives
of
our
young
people,
we're
just
not
whether
we
look
like
you
where
we
come
from
whatever
background
we're,
still
not
the
expert
in
right,
and
so
we
have
to
listen
to
our
young
people
and
families.
T
um
I
think
efforts
need
to
be
flexible
and
creative.
There
is.
We
talked
about
this
there's
a
stigma
around
accessing
mental
health
services.
There
shouldn't
be,
but
we've
created
that
that
stigma
right,
and
so
we
know
that
for
many
of
our
bipoc
youth,
especially
young
men,
I
think,
are
not
going
to
walk
into
your
traditional
mental
health
settings.
Many
of
them
won't
not
just
because
it
feels
inaccessible
or
there
are
limited
services,
because
but
because
there
is
the
stigma.
T
So
one
of
the
things
that
we
do-
and
I
think
all
of
us
do
is
we
tend
to
break
down
the
barrier
to
that
stigma.
We
bring
the
therapy
to
them
right.
uh
We
truly
are
meeting
young
people
where
we're
at.
We
often
talk
about
meeting
meeting
someone
where
they're
at
right
in
the
textbook
right,
but
the
truth
is
we
do
we
do
that
every
day
right,
so
we
may
be
meeting
with
families
or
in
their
homes.
We
may
be
meeting
with
a
young
person
in
school
detention.
T
Jails
pains
me
to
say
that
or
the
park
or
even
just
in
our
car
and
doing
so
can
help
folks
feel
like
it's
less
intense
and
the
truth
is
we
don't
even
have
to
call
it
therapy.
All
of
us
are
licensed
clinical
social
workers
at
youth
connect.
We
all
can
do
therapy,
we
all
do
therapy,
but
if
you
don't
want
to
call
it
that
I'm
just
kevin
right-
and
we
really
you
know
my
team
of
just
dedicated
social
workers.
T
T
We
also
know
that
different
therapeutic
modalities
are
needed,
and
someone
spoke
about
that
in
in
the
previous
panel
and
a
true
believer
in
this.
You
know
the
way
you
engage
young
people
is
the
way
you
engage
young
people
right
whatever
works,
and
for
many
of
our
young
people,
it's
sports,
it's
music!
It's
art,
it's
dance
right,
creative!
Writing.
You
name
it.
T
We
also
know
that
building
caring
relationships
works
right,
but
it
takes
time
and
trust
and
in
any
effort
that
we
do
and
with
any
funding
that
comes
out,
it
needs
to
recognize
this
and
invest
in
programs
that
have
a
history
of
supporting
young
people
over
the
long
haul,
like
many
of
us
here
at
the
table,
but
certainly
at
youth
connect
and
boys
and
girls
clubs
of
boston,
and
we
need
to
make
it
a
priority
to
provide
free
access
to
mental
health
supports.
I
love
what
you
know.
T
T
T
We
know
that
also
youth
don't
grow
up
in
isolation
right.
We
know
this
in
positive
youth
development
right.
They
grow
up
in
the
context
of
families
and
schools
and
community,
and
so
we
have
to
leverage
and
build
strong,
consistent
partnerships
with
the
team
working
alongside
the
family
that
doesn't
duplicate
services,
because
then
a
lot
of
this
happens-
and
I
think
counselor
mahia
spoke
to
that.
T
You
know
a
lot
of
this
right.
So
one
of
the
things
that
we
like
to
do
is
to
really
work
with
our
partners
um
and
we
work
with
so
many
um
in
our
you
know:
collaborate
and
really
trying
to
coordinate
services.
So
so
we
know
what
we
need
to
do
based
on
what
a
family
is
telling
us
that
they
need
so
more
than
ever.
I
think
we
do
need
more
funding
to
increase
non-traditional
methods.
T
T
T
U
Okay,
yeah.
Thank
you
so
much
for
inviting
me
here
to
um
talk
about
dd
squad
and
the
work
that
we
do.
Thank
you
councillor
mahia!
Thank
you.
So
my
name
is
toy
burton.
I
am
the
founder
and
executive
director
of
dede's
cry
suicide
prevention
and
family
support,
and
also
the
founder
and
executive
director
of
the
roxbury
unity
parade.
U
These
cries
named
after
my
sister
danita
shay
morris,
who
died
by
suicide
when
she
was
23
in
1986,
but
I
started
dd's
cry
in
2017
after
I
noticed
that
organizations
that
focus
on
suicide
prevention
and
mental
health.
Education
really
wasn't
coming
into
roxbury
dorchester
mattapan
to
me
communities
of
color,
so
I
decided
to
start
something
to
connect
the
community
to
the
resources.
U
Now
I
am
not
a
clinician.
I
am
not
in
that
field.
I
just
felt
like
my
community
needed
something,
and
so
I
decided
to
build
that
and
right
now,
duties
cry
is
currently
working
with
the
boston
public
health
commission
and
the
samaritans
to
form
a
loss.
Team
lost,
l
o
s,
s,
which
is
local
outreach
to
suicide
survivors.
U
We
know
that
stresses
in
the
home
also
affect
children's
mental
well-being,
whether
it's
food
insecurity
or
housing.
Instability
through
the
funding
from
the
boston,
resiliency
fund,
dede's
cry,
provided
direct
support
to
families
and
our
community
facing
hardships
once
the
funding
ended
so
did
that
support
during
the
pandemic.
Dede's
cry
had
a
virtual
program
that
taught
parents
how
to
support
their
child,
social,
emotional
growth
and
development,
and
gave
parents
the
strategies
and
resources
to
do
that
once
the
funding
ended.
So
did
that
support?
U
We
know
and
just
reiterate
what
councilor
murphy
was
saying
before
and
to
paraphrase
to
paraphrase,
we
know
that
the
covert
19
pandemic
continues
to
take
an
alarming
toll
on
our
children's
mental
health.
We
must
ensure
that
every
child
has
access
to
culturally
competent
mental
health
care
and
supports.
We
must
put
supports
in
place
for
our
children
in
our
schools
and
community
that
foster
our
children's
mental
well-being.
U
U
Like
the
lost
team,
we
must
fund
organizations
like
dede's
cry
that
are
meeting
families
where
they're
at
and
make
sure
that
our
children
have
the
resources
to
thrive
and
not
just
survive
and
um
just
to
magnify
what
councilor
mejia
said
about
people
with
lived
experience.
So
I
am
also
a
suicide
attempt
survivor.
U
I
am
also
I've
been
clean
for
almost
24
years,
clean
and
sober,
so
I
know
what
it's
like
to
um
self.
Thank
you.
What
it's
like
to
self-medicate
and
our
community
does
that.
Well
too,
we
self-medicate,
because
the
resources
are
not
there,
so
we
turn
to
drugs
and
alcohol
to
help
us
deal
with
the
pains
and
the
traumas
that
we
are
going
through
or
that
we
went
through.
So
even
with
the
dd's
cry
begins
with
me.
U
U
When
I
started
dd's
cry
almost
five
years
ago,
um
everything
was
just
out
of
pocket.
Like
I
said
I
just
felt
the
need
and
and
just
provided
that
need
if
it
was
not
for
the
pandemic,
deities
cry
would
have
never
received
funding.
I
apply
for
grants
and
I
get
no's
all
the
time
saying.
Mental
health
is
not
in
their
their
catchment.
You
know
of
the
of
what
they
support,
like
they
support
health,
but
not
mental
health
and
because
of
the
pandemic.
U
The
one
thing
that
came,
not
the
one
thing,
but
a
good
thing
that
came
from
it
is
that
that
we
are
focused
on
mental
health.
Now
you
know,
there's
a
lot
of
organizations
that
has
arose
because
of
the
pandemic
to
address
mental
health,
but
deities
cries
been
there.
We've
been
wanting
to
provide
the
support
to
prevent
suicide,
so
dd's
cry
is
asking
that
the
city
council
put
in
funding,
provide
us
with
the
three
hundred
thousand
dollars
that
we
need
to
do
this
work.
We
are
a
three-person
team
support
in
our
community.
U
A
V
Good
morning
this
has
been
for
me
uh
very
emotional,
I'm
a
little
bit
overwhelmed
by
everyone's
comments
today
and
you
know
I
have
a
lot
of
what
kevin
said
about
connects
on
the
back
of
this
sheet
right,
which
I
was
going
to
say,
but
I'm
not
going
to
I'm
not
going
to
bore
everyone
now
with
you
know
the
urgency
of
this
work.
I
think
kevin
was
very
articulate
in
what
we
all
try
to
do
in
the
nonprofit
sector.
V
So
I'll
leave
this
with
people
as
we
leave,
and
then
you
can
read
more
about
our
organization,
but
one
of
the
things
that
really
struck
me
today
was
you
know
when
I
was
born.
This
is
not
going
to
be
my
whole
life
story,
but
when
I
was
born
you
know
the
the
doctor
didn't
present
me
to
my
parents
and
say:
congratulations.
You
have
a
gay
son
right,
because
the
expectations,
of
course,
were
that
I
would
be
quote
normal
straight
and,
and
you
know
we're
born
with
expectations.
V
V
V
You
know
we
in
this
room
now
have
a
story
right.
It's
a
shared
story,
and
I
think
you
know
we're
also
part
of
the
story,
the
story
of
merely
being
right
of
being
fragile,
being
strong
right
of
being
joyful
or
being
sad.
You
know
the
human
condition,
and
you
know
mental
health
is
part
of
the
human
condition.
V
V
We
worked
on
a
really
beautiful
project
at
one
point
with
four
colleagues
that
I
was
like
out
of
my
mind,
thrilled
to
work
with
high
square
task
force,
the
theater
offensive,
rahratz
and
zumix
right,
you
know,
sort
of
in
that
creative
youth
development
field.
I
said
what
I
don't
belong
here,
and
um
but
we
did
a
survey.
You
survey-
and
this
was
the
most
telling
thing
to
me-.
V
There's
two
parts
of
this
story.
You
know
my
young
people
were
very
disturbed
because
the
education
piece,
uh
you
know,
had
finished
high
school.
You
know
blah
blah
blah
or
dropped
out
right
and
my
young
people
said
you
know.
That's
we
didn't
drop
out
life
happened,
you
know
I
came
home
and
my
mother
was
shooting
up.
I
had
to
get
my
brother
out
of
prison.
You
know
the
stories
that
we
all
know
the
stories
of
our
lives,
and
so
they
changed
the
language
of
that.
V
To
you
know
I
left
school
because
of
circumstances
beyond
and
out
of
my
control
and
but
funders
don't
like
to
hear
that
they
like
to
hear.
I
went
to
college,
they
want
to
hear.
I
got
a
great
job
when
we
did
a
survey
of
over
70.
I
think
it
was
seven.
Almost
seven
thousand
young
people
right.
We
had
a
return
rate,
phenomenal
return
rate
and
asked
what
they
had
found
or
what
the
best
thing
about
being
at
medicine.
V
But
knowing
that
you
know
their
kid
wanted
to
live
the
kid
wanted
to
get
better.
The
kid
was
struggling
right.
I
think
one
of
the
things
I've
heard
today
again,
that
is
that
you
know
chil
young
people
and
parents
have
given
up
their.
They
are
the
experts
right
and
the
expectation
that
the
experts
will
come
in
and
fix.
V
Us
is
just
wrong
and
and
we've
given
our
power
over
oftentimes
to
these
experts,
who
are
supposed
to
come
in
with
the
fix
and
and
because
of
that
oftentimes
that
disconnection
between
our
story
and
thus
story
is
broken
right,
and
so
we
stay
stuck
in
a
place
that
we
can't
break
out
of.
We
used
to
call
it
in
south
boston,
where
I've
done
a
lot
of
youth
work,
the
salty
milkshake.
V
It
involved
suicide,
heroin,
death
suicide,
heroin,
death
right,
no
way
to
break
free
of
that,
and
when
you
know
this
I'll
end
with
this,
but
you
know
when
I
first
started
this
youth
work,
I'm
going
to
pass
it
over
to
my
colleague
raymond.
When
I
first
started
this
youth
work,
a
young
man
said
to
me,
and
he
we
worked
with
17
young
people
that
year
and
he
said
to
me,
you
know
mike
nobody
ever
shows
us
what
to
do.
V
Nobody
ever
listens
to
our
story,
and
these
were
kids,
who
wanted
to
build
a
memorial
space
for
victims
of
overdose
and
suicide,
and
they
said
we've
gone
to
the
church.
They
said
no
we've
gone
to
the
city,
they
say
no.
We've
gone
to
our
families,
they
say
no,
we
don't
want
to
romanticize
suicide.
We
don't
want
to
think
that,
oh,
if
you
kill
yourself
you'll
get
a
monument.
V
V
We're
in
a
gun,
violence,
addiction,
suicide,
racist.
You
know
we're
in
pandemics
that
are
unbelievable,
but
because
of
that
work,
we've
had
a
lot
of
invitations
won
by
the
boston
police
department
in
our
hand-in-hand
project,
pairing
young
people
with
police
officers
across
the
city
in
a
series
of
creative
dialogues
uh
and
the
other
in
the
most
recent
one
was
going
to
pastor
raymond
right
now.
Q
J
Good
afternoon,
um
thank
you
for
having
me
here,
I'm
raymond
rodriguez
and
I
represent
the
latinx
wellness
center.
It
was
created
as
a
result
of
not
having
anything
latinx
in
our
city
of
our
own.
Pretty
much.
I
come
from
the
era
of
latino
health
institute
and
the
centrist
panel
of
chelsea.
I
grew
up
a
cathedral
projects
in
boston
and
I'm
an
lgbtq
man
who
normalizes
mental
health.
J
J
W
um
So
yeah,
I
just
want
to
be
cognizant
of
everybody's
time
and
I
feel
like
a
lot
of
the
similar
things
that
everybody's
spoken
about,
especially
you
um
I
can
relate
to
in
regards
to
namaste
sober.
So
I'm
the
founder
of
namaste,
sober,
I'm
also
a
meditation
instructor
and
um
we
started
namaste
sober
back
in
2015..
W
W
So
um
you
know
there
was
a
lot
of
different
hurdles
aside
from
just
like
financial
accessibility,
for
him
to
be
able
to
uh
come
to
class,
so
he
never
made
it
and
as
a
result,
after
he
passed
away,
we
held
a
fundraiser
for
him
and
all
the
money
that
we
raised.
We
decided
to
donate
just
uh
to
people
that
are
were
in
recovery,
five
people
to
get
a
year-long
scholarship
to
yoga
and
then,
after
that
year.
W
That's
why
breathing
meditation
are
so
important,
um
so
out
of
those
five
people,
four
of
them
were
sober
at
the
end
of
the
year
um
and
then
two
of
them
went
on
to
become
yoga
instructors
and
actually
ended
up
opening
their
own
yoga
studios.
So
the
whole
you
know
from
where
we
were
in
2015
to
now
now
we
partner
with
studios
all
around
the
city
already
existing
studios
and
our
whole
goal
is
to
make
their
offerings
and
classes
and
workshops
and
teacher
trainings
uh
more
accessible
for
people
that
are
in
any
type
of
recovery.
W
W
We
started
teaching
online
classes,
community
conversations
that
focus
on
meditation,
mindfulness
context,
awareness,
and
we
thought
they
were
going
to
last
for
a
couple
weeks,
maybe
a
month,
and
that
soon
turned
into
now
going
on
like
two
years
of
us
leading
those
classes.
So
you
know,
I
think,
one
of
the
reasons
why
I'm
emotional
right
now
is
I
you
know.
I
know
that
our
programming
works
and
it's
just
been
very
frustrating
um
to
kind
of
be
in
this
startup
phase
for
so
long.
You
know.
Q
W
You
know
a
lot
of
our
a
lot
of
the
instructors
that
um
you
know.
Four
instructors
specifically
that
started
the
pandemic
teaching
meditation
from
home
have
since
relapsed
two
of
them
currently
live
on
mass
cast,
and
um
you
know
the
thing
about
yoga
and
meditation.
Is
it
just
really
works
and
we
have
different
systems
that
we've
created
over
the
years,
one
of
them
being
that
we
have
a
host
at
every
studios?
So
when
new
members
go
to
studios,
they
meet
the
host
and
they
take
the
first
class.
W
W
You
know
and
um
the
way
that
we
communicate
is
we
set
up
slack
channels
for
each
of
our
studios,
so
um
the
members
are
able
to
communicate
to
each
other
to
the
host,
and
then
we
also
have
ambassadors
that
are
instructors
in
the
studios,
so
people
feel
like
they
can
identify
with
the
instructors
and
maybe
even
see
like
a
future
career
path.
For
themselves,
so
yeah,
that's
that's
pretty
much
it.
W
L
So
I'm
struggling
being
in
this
space
retriggers
me
and
he
traumatizes
me,
because
I've
been
active
since
1994.,
yet
I'm
here,
because
I
am
committed
to
my
beloved
city,
I
am
chaplain
clementina,
sherry
founder
of
the
lewis
d
brown
peace
institute
and
on
behalf
of
my
entire
team
at
the
peace
institute.
We
thank
you,
chair,
counselor
murphy,
for
allowing
enough
to
speak
today
and
to
all
the
city
councils,
whether
you're,
here
or
not.
We
express
our
appreciation
for
your
service
and
partnership
as
we
work
to
foster
peace
in
the
city
of
boston.
L
L
I
left
the
hospital
empty-handed,
both
literally
and
within
my
soul.
No
family
deserves
to
be
without
guidance
at
such
an
awful
time
yet
once
people
realize
that
lewis
was
a
good
kid
with
good
grades
and
not
in
any
kind
of
trouble,
support
began
to
flood
in
this
exposed.
The
painful
reality
that
the
city
of
boston
did
indeed
have
the
resources
for
families
of
murdered
victims,
but
only
if
the
victim
was
deemed
worthy
as
families
who
experience
the
pain
of
having
to
bury
your
loved
ones
to
homicide
deserve
to
be
wrapped
in
love,
compassion
and
support.
L
The
peace
institute
is
asked
to
share
our
knowledge
around
the
country
and
internationally.
Yet
it
remains
a
challenge
to
secure
the
resources
that
will
sustain
us
to
meet
the
basic
needs
of
families.
When
a
homicide
happens,
the
partnership
between
the
peace
institute
and
the
city
of
boston
serves
as
a
model
to
the
nation
of
how
local
government
and
community
can
collaborate
in
responding
to
murder,
trauma,
grief
and
loss
to
further
this
work
and
to
meet
the
needs
of
growing
survivor
community.
L
L
L
1996
is
a
26-page
report,
youth
violence,
a
community-based
response,
one
city,
success
story.
I
don't
know
if
those
of
you
remember
when
janet
reno
was
here,
our
attorney
general
section,
five
prevention-oriented
school-based
program
on
e
on
page
19.,
the
lewis
d
brown
peace
curriculum
was
one
of
the
programs
that
our
attorney
general
cited
that
contributed
to
the
reduction
of
juvenile
crime
in
the
city
of
boston.
L
This
is
before
social,
emotional
learning
became
a
thing:
2010
report,
family
voices,
strengthened
homicide
response
and
family
support
in
the
city
of
boston,
a
report
to
members
of
the
boston
city
council
from
ayana
presley
on
page
five,
there's
some
conclusion:
2011
city
of
boston,
national
forum
and
youth,
violence,
prevention,
youth,
violence,
prevention
and
reduction.
A
comprehensive
city
plan
we're
on
page
29,
citing
our
work,
2016
testimony
and
recommendations
to
the
boston
city.
Council's
committee,
hearing
on
the
boston,
public
health
commission's
trauma
and
recovery
center.
L
We
offer
some
clear
guidance
recommendation
on
what
to
do
with
the
entire
city
of
boston
2020
report
to
mayor
walsh,
with
partnership
updates
on
10
action
items.
The
mayor
wanted
in
the
city
of
boston.
We
gave
him
that
report
and
now
we're
back
here
again
with
a
new
mayor
with
a
new
body
of
city
council.
L
We
are
committed
to
our
young
people.
I
am
giving
you
guys
resources.
I
know
we
presented
to
you,
you
have
all
of
that.
I
hope
you
will
join
us
for
our
annual
mother's
day,
walk
for
peace,
and
we
want
to
partner
with
this
city
council.
We
want
to
partner
with
you
bring
us
on
to
city
hall.
I
am
not
a
licensed
clinician,
I
don't
have
a
phd
yet
my
young
son
wondered
why
adults
were
always
blaming
young
people
when
violence
happened
and
when
things
go
good.
Every
politician,
every
church,
every
member
everybody
is
taking
credit.
L
L
I
would
love
to
work
with
this
city
council
body
to
create
a
peaceful
and
urban
setting
on
city
hall,
plaza
where
we
can
bring
our
community
together
to
really
show
what
the
piece
of
the
city
looks
like.
So
I
will
close
if
any
of
you
want
these
they're
stacks.
So
I
know
I
don't
want
to
kill
any
trees.
L
I
would
love
to
send
these
reports
and
recommendations
to
you
guys
so
that
you
can
see
this
city
has
done
plan
of
the
plan
of
the
plan
after
plan
after
plan
and
we're
still
here,
29
years
later,
still
looking
for
plan.
So
thank
you
so
much
to
my
colleagues,
we
are
here.
You
know
we
are
committed
and
we
just
got
to
keep
on
keeping
on
to
make
sure
that
we
do
not
continue
to
blame
the
children.
I
have
three
grandchildren.
L
Q
I
appreciate
the
city
councillors
for
their
time
and
thoughtfulness
in
determining
the
priorities
of
the
city
that
will
be
addressed
through
critical
funding
and
I'm
very
grateful
for
all
of
the
panelists
today
and
everyone
who
shared
my
name
is
maddie
lee.
I
am
a
social
worker
by
training
and
now
I'm
the
engagement
manager
at
the
phoenix.
Q
Our
mission
is
to
build
a
sober,
active
community
that
fuels
resilience
and
harnesses
the
transformational
power
of
connection,
so
that
together
we
rise,
recover
and
live
all
of
our
programming
is
free
and
the
only
requirement
is
48
hours
of
sobriety
with
over
500
000
massachusetts
residents
living
with
substance
use
disorder,
we're
on
a
mission
to
help
as
many
people
as
we
can.
The
phoenix
is
creating
a
movement
so
strong
that
people
are
drawn
in
and
want
to
be
part
of
a
supportive
sober
community
filled
with
life.
Q
The
last
national
survey
on
drug
use,
health
and
treatment
services,
which
was
released
prior
to
the
pandemic.
So
we
know
this
has
gone
up,
showed
that
youth
aged
12
to
17
in
massachusetts
used
alcohol
for
the
first
time
in
their
lives
at
a
higher
rate
than
both
the
regional
average
and
the
national
averages.
Q
Q
Q
The
phoenix
gladly
partners
with
several
city
agencies,
such
as
the
office
of
recovery
services,
boston
ems
office
of
returning
citizens
and
boston
police
department,
as
well
as
several
youth
serving
organizations
like
soccer
without
borders,
beat
the
streets,
three-point
foundation
and
several
other
partners,
like
namaste,
sober
to
fill
our
gym
with
families.
Children
and
all
members
of
our
community
who
need
a
space
for
healing
submitted
in
writing
today
are
some
highlights
of
our
youth
and
family
programming.
Q
However,
I
want
to
emphasize
that
nonprofits,
like
the
phoenix
and
like
my
fellow
panelists,
are
not
nice
to
have
extra
resources,
we're
essential
and
critical
partners
to
serve
some
of
the
city's
most
vulnerable
community
members
across
the
country.
In
the
last
year,
in
the
last
year
in
boston,
the
phoenix
has
served
over
2
000
people.
Q
A
H
So
I
feel
like
I'm
with
family
right
um
so
tina
and
I
go
way
back
and
it's
so
disheartening
to
know
that
we've
been
at
this
work
for
so
long.
You
were
a
keynote
speaker
when
I
used
to
do
youth
development
work
back
in
the
day
when
you
first
launched
the
lewiston
brown
peace
institute,
so
it
just
goes
to
show
the
amount
of
work
um
that
still
needs
to
happen
here
in
the
city,
but
I'm
always
encouraged
by
you
and
your
leadership
and
how
you
always
show
up
and
hold
us
accountable.
H
um
So
just
want
to
know
for
the
record.
I
still
got
three
minutes
I'll.
Keep
looking
at
me
morphing
um
that
um
that
um
you
know
I
just
want
to
go
on
the
record
and
stating
that,
in
terms
of
financial
investments,
that
I
will
always,
uh
you
can
always
count
on
my
support
um
to
ensure
that
we
are
supporting
organizations
and
startup
organizations.
We
need
to
get
out
of
our
bureaucracy
right
and
create
space
for
people.
H
H
H
I
always
say
that
this
work
is
not
it's
not
about
hard
work,
it's
hard
work
and
when
you
lead
with
your
heart-
and
you
show
up
in
your
true
self-
it's
not
about
politics
and
that's
the
issue.
I
think,
in
the
many
reasons
why
we
as
a
city
have
not
been
able
to
move
the
needle
and
we
keep
going
back
and
forth
because
the
political
will
to
do
what
is
right,
usually
is
at
the
cost
of
whether
or
not
you're
going
to
make
a
decision.
H
That's
going
to
be
politically
correct
and
we
can't
play
like
that
anymore
right.
So
these
times
require
us
to
really
show
up
for
people
and
to
do
the
work,
the
real
work.
So
I'm
here
for
it.
So
trust
that
you
have
my
support
and
whatever
that
looks
like
know
that
I'm
going
to
be
walking
at
the
mother's
day
walk
I
worked.
I
worked
with
you
on
the
20th
anniversary,
walk.
I
I've
been
a
big
supporter
since
day
one
you
are
my
neighbor
tina
toy.
H
S
um
Madam
chair
and
the
panelists,
um
so
I
mean
there's
a
certain
process
to
how
things
happen
in
city
government
and
then
there's
bureaucracy
in
red
tapes
and
um
kind
of
like
you
know,
shitty
technicalities
that
they
use
as
like
you
know,
as
delayed
tactics,
and
I
think
that
I'm
not
like.
I
personally
don't
agree
right
um
and
I
hope
you
can
appreciate
my
vernacular.
It's
for
the
drama,
dramatic
effect,
um
sister
tina.
I
have
a
picture
with
you
when
I
was
13.
S
And
my
mom,
I
think
volunteers
for
your.
I
look
just
like
her
antoinette
cavallo
volunteers
for
your
program,
um
but
I
remember
you
being
a
child
and
hearing
the
story
and
underst
and
not
fully
understanding.
I
wasn't
a
child,
but
as
a
teenager,
and
not
fully
understanding
the
scope
of
what
you
you
were
going
through.
S
S
My
promises
rely
on
the
delivery
that
I
have
to
um
bring
to
my
own
grandmother
to
the
faces
that
look
like
my
mother
to
my
brothers
and
sister
and
people
in
my
community
that
all
feel
like
family
right.
um
So
I
thank
you
for
your
vigor
for
your
strength,
but
I
want
to
respect
you
and
if
I
respect
you,
I
want
you
to
to
live
and
to
be
able
to
care
for
your
family
and
to
thrive
and
to
continue
to
do
this.
S
You
know
that
I
have
a
deep
appreciation
for
you
and
your
work
um
we've
met
and
I
hope
I
can
do
more
than
the
little
bit
that
I've
been
able
to
so
far.
I
hope
that
we
can
connect
and
I
think
that
we
have
to
become
organized
in
the
way
that
we
advocate
for
funding,
um
and
I
think
it's
all
about
access.
I
hear
council
lugian
talking
about
this
all
the
time.
S
The
people
that
have
access
seem
to
be
the
ones
that
the
first
you
know
get
the
first
check
so
and-
and
I
heard
you
loud
and
clear
brother
about
the
stories
you
know
in
terms
of
who
is
who
is
considered
or
deemed
qualified
to
get
this
funding,
and
we
have
to
flip
that.
I
don't
agree
that
the
city
of
boston
or
government
should
not
support
nonprofits.
S
I
don't
agree
that
we
should
have
like
this
thing,
where
we're
only
contracting
in
with
for-profit
or
whatever.
I
do
understand
that
there
are
non-profits
that
you
know
have
to
be
vetted,
but
these
are
exemplary
programs
that
have
been
the
backbone
and
kevin.
You
know
we
talked
for
over
an
hour
about
your
program
and
these
are
the
impactful
programs
like
the
phoenix
program
and
mr
nicoletta.
Thank
you
so
much
for
sharing
your
strength
here
with
us
and
your
vulnerability.
S
um
I
want
to
do
the
real
work.
I
want
to
understand
what
the
heck
is
going
on
in
the
process
that
we
can
actually
look
at.
You
know
delineating
the
steps
one
two
three
make
it
simple.
Can
you
help
me?
Can
you
not?
Are
you
partners?
Are
you
not?
Are
you
supporting?
Are
you
not?
Can
we
do
this
together?
Do
I
hold
the
city
by
myself
when
a
friend
of
mine
passed
away?
Sorry,
one
minute?
S
If
I,
if
I
may,
madam
chair,
when
my
friend
passed
away,
I
contacted
your
agency,
the
city
of
boston,
for
some
reason
there
was
a
huge
disconnect
to
the
bureaucratic
stuff
of
getting
it.
It
was
your
program
who
buried
this
man
for
this
family
and
I
didn't
know.
I
met
him
one
time
in
the
mosque
and
he
happened
to
be
cape
verdean
and
the
wife
didn't
speak
korea,
english
and
because
he
was
muslim,
one
hello,
one
smile
the
next
week
he
died,
he
got
killed
and
it
was
your
program
that
buried
this
man.
S
It
was
your
program
that
that
supported
him
and
it
shouldn't
just
be
that
you
guys
hold
on
your
backs
every
service
and
hold
the
city
up
for
us
to
sit
here
and
say.
Thank
you
so
much
for
what
you
do:
yeah
yeah!
What's
what?
How
can
we
deliver
in
a
real
way
and
I'm
willing
to
help
you
to
advocate
to
figure
out?
How
can
we
collaborate
with
administration
or
state
level
and
get
some
money?
I
Thank
you,
councillor,
murphy,
for
holding
this
hearing.
Thank
you,
everyone
for
being
here.
I
apologize
that
I
was
so
late
um
and
um
I
just
when
I
walked
into
this
room,
I
could
see
how
heavy
it
was,
and
I
just
thank
you
all
for
sharing
so
much
of
yourselves
and
your
story.
I
was
already
pretty
emotionally
raw,
because
this
morning
I
was
sharing.
I
I
was
speaking
to
students
who
are
in
a
sheltered
english
immersion
class
in
this
life
program,
where
they've
just
felt
like
so
many
life
difficulties
and
are
in
a
special
classroom
and-
um
and
I
just
told
them
to
that-
they
should
be
celebrating
themselves
because
they've
spent
so
much
of
their
lives
being
uprooted.
So
many
of
them
crossing
the
border
to
get
here
and
we
don't
honor
the
immigrant
experience
in
terms
of
the
loss
that
people
experience
and
how
hard
it
is,
and
so
I
shared
with
a
story
that
I
I
really
ever
share
about.
I
Our
job
is:
how
do
we
help
people
to
wholeness
and
I'm
not
going
to
spend
too
much
time
saying
what
my
colleagues
have
already
stated,
but
um
I'm
a
new
city
councilor
as
much
as
I
can
learn
how
to
pull
the
levers
to
support
our
non-profits
or
groups
that
are
already
out
there
doing
the
work?
um
That's
what
I
will
do.
I
I
think,
of
course,
chaplain
cherry
for
being
here.
I
think
toy
nicoletta
for
sharing
your
story.
Raymond
um
kevin.
I
didn't
grab
your
name
michael
um
and,
of
course,
the
folks
from
maddie
from
phoenix.
um
This
is
the
work
right.
Sometimes
like
government
doesn't
always
get
it
right,
but
you
guys
are,
and
you
all
should
be
supported
in
what
you
do
so,
um
like
my
colleagues,
I
commit
to
making
sure
that
we
are
using
our
resources.
We
are
a
wealthy
city.
I
We
have
a
lot
of
prosperity,
so
when
people
tell
you
no,
it's
usually
because
they
don't
want
to
do
something
or
it's
usually
a
lie,
and
so
um
I
commit
to
sharing
the
prosperity
of
the
city
with
you,
because
you
are
stepping
in
the
gaps
of
our
policy
failures,
and
for
that
I
salute
all
of
you.
So
thank
you.
Thank.
C
A
I
will
go
and
we
do
have
two
people
who
are
on
zoom
to
speak
and
hopefully
we
can
get
that
done
before
the
1
30
meeting
starts.
But
thank
you
to
my
colleagues
a
lot
of
what
you
said
is
what
I'm
feeling
and
thank
you
all
for
just
showing
up,
and
I
lost
my
son.
So
I
know
it's
a
weird:
it's
weird
bond
mothers
have
so,
and
we
know
that
pain
never
goes
away.
A
So
I
also
commit
to
what
my
colleague
said
that
we're
going
to
keep
advocating
and
showing
up
and
yes,
the
administration
was
here
first
and
then
we
had
the
medical
field
and
they're
doing
wonderful
things,
but
we
all
know
that
it's
the
non-profits
who
are
out
there,
that
are
the
miracle
workers
that
are
showing
up
in
a
car.
If
that's
what
you
need
you
talk
often
michael
about
you
know,
everyone
has
a
story
and
when
you.
A
X
X
But
um
since
the
pandemic
started
in
march,
2020
politicians
and
school
administrations
have
gotten
far
too
comfortable
intruding
on
the
lives
of
the
people
they
work
for
by
acting
as
if
they
have
this
newfound
authority
to
make
our
medical
decisions
for
us.
We've
seen
everything
from
the
extreme
torture
of
our
children
by
forcing
them
to
wear
muzzles
for
six
to
eight
hours
a
day
to
the
disgusting
violations
of
our
bodily
autonomy
by
forcing
cova
testing
and
vaccination
to
participate
in
society.
X
X
We
send
our
children
to
school,
to
learn,
academics
and
to
socialize
not
to
be
screened,
diagnosed
and
treated
by
medical
professionals.
That's
what
clinics
and
hospitals
are
for.
Why
do
you
want
so
badly
to
take
away
parental
rights?
Is
it
a
power
trip?
Do
you
think
you
can
make
better
decisions
for
a
child
than
his
or
her
parent?
Can
it's
none
of
your
business?
What
the
medical
needs
are
of
our
children.
X
Our
children
are
suffering
at
higher
rates
than
ever,
because
you,
our
government,
have
been
abusing
them
for
the
past
two
years
and
counting.
If
you
really
wanted
to
see
mental
health,
improving
our
youth
in
our
youth
you'd
be
advocating
to
remove
the
masks
and
allow
them
to
hug
and
high-five
each
other
and
to
sit
together
to
eat
lunch.
There
is
nothing
you
can
do
to
fix
all
the
mistakes
you've
all
made
over
the
past
two
years,
but
it
all
needs
to
stop
now.
X
X
I
will
campaign
and
I
will
educate
every
single
parent
in
this
city
on
what
you
are
doing
to
their
kids.
I
will
continue
to
be
here
every
week
and
I
will
continue
to
protest
here
and
at
your
houses,
no
matter
how
many
times
you
put
me
in
jail
for
doing
it.
It
is
my
god-given
responsibility
to
to
protect
my
children,
and
I
will
do
everything
in
my
power
to
empower
every
other
parent
in
boston.
To
do
the
same.
That's
all.
Y
Hi,
I'm
also
one
of
the
protesters
that
have
been
outside
mayor
wu's
house,
holding
signs,
saying,
unmask
the
kids.
It
causes
psychological
trauma,
they
are
being
tortured.
There
have
been
protesters
regularly
speaking
out
against
the
pandemic.
Restrictions
forced
on
young
people
in
the
boston,
public
schools
and
the
city,
councilor
and
mayor
continue
to
ignore,
fail
to
take
appropriate
action
on
other
city
council
hearings.
When
members
of
the
public
spoke
calling
mass
abusive,
they
were
censored,
interrupted
and
muted
by
the
city
council.
Y
Instead
of
hearing
the
cries
of
the
concerned,
adults,
the
city
council
intends
to
turn
schools
into
mental
health
facilities
rather
than
removing
the
mass
from
the
kids
and
allowing
them
to
resume
normal
social
interaction,
stop
torturing
the
kids
and
leave
the
parental
decisions
in
the
home
where
they
belong,
stop
blocking
public
comment
or
turning
a
deaf
ear
to
messages
that
don't
align
with
your
agenda.
When
you
hear
from
members
of
the
public
remember
you
report
to
us.
Boston
remains
one
of
the
only
school
systems
in
the
entire
state
that
has
yet
to
unmask
the
students.
Y
There
is
no
emergency
and
this
cruel
science
experiment
on
the
children
must
stop.
Now.
The
continued
masking
of
kids
in
the
city
of
boston
are
having
tragic
consequences
for
those
children
still
enrolled.
Luckily,
those
families
who
have
the
means
have
been
pulling
their
children
out
in
record
numbers
week
after
week,
your
schools
stink,
the
kids,
are
being
academically
and
they're
being
forced
to
wear
them.
Wear
germ
cloths
on
their
faces
to
read
and
breathe,
breathe
their
co2
contrary
to
what
god
intended
for
them
to
breathe
own
up
to
what
you
have
done.
Y
You
are
harming
children
with
your
policies,
end
the
mass
mandate
and
then
let
these
kids
go
back
to
being
carefree
again,
your
policies
of
masking
them
feel
responsible,
feel
responsible
for
protecting
adults
and
beyond,
cruel
and
needs
to
end.
Children
are
not
responsible
to
protect
adults.
It's
a
twisted
society
who
thinks
so.
Children
belong
to
their
parents,
not
the
city,
council
or
the
school
system.
Stop
your
intrusion
into
families
and
give
kids
back
to
their
parents
to
oversee
stand
down.
All
of
you.
You
are
violating
our
civil
and
human
rights.
A
Thank
you.
Thank
you
for
your
comments
and
it
is
128
and
we
have
finished
just
in
time
for
the
1
30
meeting,
but
I
do
just
want
to
thank
everyone
who's
here,
and
I
know
it's
just
the
beginning
of
this
very
important
conversation
and
we're
going
to
continue
to
advocate
and
work
together.
So
thank
you
so
much.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.